What are they good at? Making broad, proud, sweeping summit-closing declarations on
stuff they will never actually do:
The European Commission has presented plans to boost spending on scientific research by tens of billions of euros.
EU science commissioner Maire Geoghegan-Quinn on Wednesday (30 November) announced the bloc's new €80 billion envelope, up from €50.5 billion for its previous seven-year funding programme.
In fact it's SO visionary, (after all, who would ever think to do "research" or get the taxpayer to fund some of it,) that they had to come up with a new name for this phenomical invention.
The new scheme, dubbed Horizon 2020, will run from 2014-2020.
"We need a new vision for European research and innovation in a dramatically changed economic environment," said Geoghegan-Quinn.
Wait! Wait! I think I'm having a vision!
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