Investment in research must be
unbundled from the deficit calculation in order to promote
scientific and technological development, the 2021 Nobel
prizewinner for physics, Giorgio Parisi, said on Saturday.
"Radical changes are needed and can be achieved at EU level by
decoupling state investment in research and development from the
deficit calculation, preventing the need to limit spending from
seriously blocking the country's scientific and technological
development," said Parisi at an event to mark the 100th
anniversary of the National Research Council (CNR).
"A revision of the European Stability Pact involving the
unbundling of these investments would allow a decisive change of
course at the European level" and consequently the realisation
of "the objectives set in Lisbon in 2000 to arrive at a
knowledge-based economy in all states", he continued.
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