Posted on 08/15/2013 3:22:50 AM PDT by Olog-hai
Israel warned on Wednesday that it might shun a key EU research program unless a compromise is found over the bloc’s guidelines which boycott Israeli entities operating beyond the Green Line.
Israel’s position was spelled out at a meeting with the European Union on the Jewish state’s participation in Horizon 2020, the bloc’s six-year funding plan for research and innovation, the foreign ministry said, according to AFP. …
Horizon 2020 aims “to de-pollute the Mediterranean by the year 2020 by tackling the sources of pollution that account for around 80% of the overall pollution of the Mediterranean Sea: municipal waste, urban waste water and industrial pollution,” the EU said when the project was announced in 2011. Israeli green technology is a centerpiece of the project, with Israeli researchers providing numerous systems to remove pollution from the shores of Greece, Turkey, Italy, France, and northern African countries. …
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Israel should bar Europe from receiving any medicine it has developed. This would include the #1 drugs for MS, Parkinson’s, ALS and Alzheimer’s.
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