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The Commission has come up with another proposal to foster innovation, but, as usual, the responsibility for its implementation lies with Member States.

The Commission's initiative to improve the working environment of European researchers is being endorsed by an increasing number of research organisations.

In a bid to attract the world's best brains to Europe, the Council has adopted a package of measures helping researchers from non-EU countries enter to and work in the EU.

A European Parliament report on the future of European research
says that the member states should regard the doubling of
the funding for Community R&D "as a minimum not be
questioned during the negotiations on the financial
perspectives". 

The EU wants to make it easier for researchers from third countries to work in Europe as part of its efforts to boost European research and attract more scientists.

American hegemony is threatened by a decline in foreign researchers and decreasing R&D spending, as the EU and Asia are catching up in the pursuit of excellence.

The President of the Polish Employers' Federation Henryka Bochniarz is not unhappy about restrictions on free movement of labour towards the new Member States. They will counter a "disastrous" brain drain.

Leading French scientists have threatened to resign should their government fail to substantially boost national research funding.

'Brain drain' from the EU is on the rise and R&D investment is lower than ever. These are the findings of two new studies presented by the Commission on 25 November.

On 18 July, the Commission published a Communication proposing actions to improve the attractiveness of research careers in the EU.