Research budget talks will be tough, says Geoghegan-Quinn

摘要

Getting enough support from the EU Council and European Parliament for her €80 billion Horizon 2020 research and innovation programme "will be my biggest challenge for the next eighteen months," Research, Innovation and Science Commissioner Maire Geoghegan-Quinn has said. In the upcoming negotiations on the EU multiannual financial framework for 2014-2020, she predicted that funding for research and science would be a "soft target" in part because "researchers and scientists are not lobbyists and don't like lobbying".