23/03/2005 (Agence Europe) - Le Monde of 23 March launched a call for a European research tax to be introduced. The call was above all made by Alain Trautmann, spokesman for Sauvons la recherche, and Pierre Larrouturou, spokesman for L'Union pour l'Europe sociale. The signatories assert: “If we were to decide, with a number of neighbouring countries, to create a common defence system (…) and integrated research, both financed by a European tax, our national budgets would immediately find...