Remove investment in research from deficit calcs says Parisi

(ANSA) - ROME, NOV 18 - 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. (ANSA).