Italian funding for research has
fallen 1.2 billion euros or 20% over the last 10 years,
according to a European Commission paper due out next month.
"We are on the brink of collapse," Roma Tre University
political economy lecturer Mario Pianta, who contributed to the
report, told ANSA Wednesday.
Nature journal said Wednesday the topic of research was
"completely missing" from the electoral debate ahead of Italy's
March 4 general election.
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