Fusion project funding dispute threatens Horizon 2020

EurActiv reported that an ongoing tussle between the EU institutions over the future funding of the International Thermonuclear Experimental Reactor (ITER), a controversial nuclear fusion project, which would come under the spotlight during the Danish EU Presidency in the first six months of 2012, threatened to hack into the European Commission’s €85-billion Horizon 2020 budget proposal.

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ESO: Background information: European Commission proposes Supplementary Research Programme for ITER http://www.europeansources.info/record/memo-european-commission-proposes-supplementary-research-programme-for-iter/

ESO: Background information: Website: Horizon 2020 http://www.europeansources.info/record/horizon-2020/

ESO: Background information: Multiannual Financial Framework 2014-2020 http://www.europeansources.info/record/multiannual-financial-framework-2014-2020/

2012/5/EU: Decision of the European Parliament and of the Council of 13 December 2011 amending the Interinstitutional Agreement of 17 May 2006 on budgetary discipline and sound financial management as regards the multiannual financial framework, to address additional financing needs of the ITER project http://eur-lex.europa.eu/LexUriServ/LexUriServ.do?uri=OJ:L:2012:004:0012:0013:EN:PDF

ESO: Background information: ITER http://www.europeansources.info/record/website-iter/

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