Scientific advice should be transparent, objective and independent, and there should be more science and more diverse expertise available to the European Commission’s President, a coalition of 28 international and national NGOs wrote in a letter addressed to President-elect Jean-Claude Juncker today. Nina Holland of the Corporate Europe Observatory (CEO) said: “The Chief Scientific Advisor position does not and cannot provide decision-makers with the widest and most objective science available. A single position is also far more exposed and vulnerable to the impact of lobbyists. We would welcome a debate on how to put science at the heart of European politics.”
Posted on: Tue, 19 Aug 2014 12:14:46 +0000