Agreement on research spending is vital, says Irish Presidency
“In our Presidency we would like to get an agreement with the European Parliament on how this money [on research] is going to be spent.”
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“I would invite and encourage everyone who does not like the current intellectual property rights enforcement mechanism in Europe, and I am certainly one of them, to be a part of thinking about how it should be done”.
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“The first line of environmental defence for hydraulic fracturing is the construction of the well.”
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“It’s a key element in democracy: there’s no accountability without transparency so there’s no democracy without transparency.”
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