INT/ COMMISSIONER CALLS ON MEMBERS OF EUROPEAN PARLIAMENT TO LOBBY THEIR GOVERNMENTS ON HORIZON 2020 FUNDING

   www.wbc-inco.net - Máire Geoghegan-Quinn, R&D Commissioner, tells the European Parliament that it is up to
   Members of European Parliament (MEP) to ally with the Commission and stop the European Council cutting
   the proposed €80B research programme.
   The European Parliament needs to join forces with the Commission in resisting attempts to prune back the size
   of the Horizon 2020 research programme, Máire Geoghegan-Quinn, R&D Commissioner told MEPs.
   The key will be to lobby national governments, Geoghegan-Quinn believes. “In general the individual member
   states are very supportive of Horizon 2020 and innovation and R&D as being where growth and jobs come
   from,” Geoghegan-Quinn said, but “when they come to the collective table” the story is different.

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