Does the EU need a new agency?

摘要

The current system of providing scientific evidence to EU policy makers is inefficient and lacks credibility, according to a new report released in March by the European Policy Centre (EPC), an independent Brussels-based think tank. One of the solutions, it suggests, is to create a European Academy of Sciences that mirrors the U.S. National Academies and its operating arm, the National Research Council (NRC). While many science policy experts in the EU acknowledge the present system's weaknesses, they challenge the need for another scientific organization.