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Science and Technology and European Market Integration: Changes and Continuity
Pages 3-12

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From page 3...
... It is actually an excellent occasion to understand and be understood. To understand and be understood is a mutual need for the European Community and the United States.
From page 4...
... This was the goal contained in the Treaty of Rome and more recently in the Single European Act. The United States supports this goal today with the same energy that it did 40 years ago." These, you will understand, are not the words of a European.
From page 5...
... One thing is certain, though: the strengthening of Europe's economy through the Single Market will bring about increased demand to be put at the disposal of the whole world. It is difficult for me to resist the temptation to quote James Baker again: "We think that Americans will profit from access to a Single European Market just as Europeans have long profited from their access to a single American market.
From page 6...
... The Framework Program for Research and Technological Development is nothing more and nothing less than the main instrument of this policy of combining strengths and achieving critical mass in leading-edge technologies at the Community level. Perhaps most of you are familiar with the existence of the program and its main characteristics.
From page 7...
... This recognizes that the growth and development of all countries increasingly depend on advances in science and technology, which require both a sustained research effort and the widest possible circulation of ideas and information. Looking at the particular case of the European Community and the United States, for the moment the situation is not fully satisfactory.
From page 8...
... In 1983 the Community adopted the "new approach" in standardization that predates the Single European Act and the drive for 1992 by several years. This can be taken as evidence of the fact that already back then we were fully aware that an effective and streamlined standardization mechanism was absolutely essential for true market integration.
From page 9...
... We must do more; we must cultivate it more intensively. I will purposely leave to one side for the moment the ambitious prospect of a new cooperation agreement or agreements on R&D between the European Community and the United States.
From page 10...
... These then are five concrete examples of possible consultation and cooperation between the United States and the European Community. We propose that these should be explored and tried out.
From page 11...
... This is an ever more essential factor in research activities. The whole world, and particularly we in Europe, knows what role the United States has played in preserving and increasing the human heritage in research.
From page 12...
... Markets are integrating. New ambitions are emerging, but the humble and great task that Thomas Jefferson gave to his fellow American citizens two centuries ago remains valid for always and for everyone, Europeans included: "Cultivate peace and commerce with all."


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