Brussels, 15/07/2008 (Agence Europe) - On Tuesday 15 July, the European Commission proposed that member states adopt a new approach of "joint programming" to tackle the current compartmentalisation undermining the efficiency of Europe's research. In this way, national research, which currently makes up 85% of all European public research funding, will have more impact if member states pool their resources and better coordinate their efforts. According to the European commissioner for science...