Issue (WIWE) status: Submitted, Unpublished

Weak Signal's progress: Advanced

This Weak Signal came from: 
Interviews

The source of this Weak Signal: 
Jean Claude BURGELMAN, "Institute for Prospective Technological Studies", interviewed by "MIOIR".

Weak Signal's description: 

There is a growing idea that we must act more together. There is also the realisation that if we want to be a global player we need a common foreign and defence policy. I think these might make it possible. With the research nationalism, however, you see weak signals in how the debates are conducted today about research policy. The fact, for example, that the UK has decided to cut 25 percent of its overall research budget will inevitably have a boomerang effect. All actors will try to substitute what they miss by getting the money from where they can find it, but not going for a European approach but a national approach. So there are signals there.