欧洲需要大力发展智力,需要改革工业结构,需要灵活机动、富有创造力的企业的支持。弗朗索瓦·密特朗作为欧洲共同体部长理事会主席,在海牙的发言中就是用这样的话来建议建立“欧洲工业和研究空间”的。因为,欧洲的前途完全取决于欧洲能不能在明日经济的关键部门中恢复和保持竞争力。这样的设想必然要求促进和更加重视科学研究的技术发展,要 Europe needs to develop its intellectual power vigorously, needs to reform its industrial structure and needs the support of a flexible and creative enterprise. As Chairman of the Council of Ministers of the European Community, François Mitterrand suggested in his statement in The Hague that “the European space for industry and research” be established. Because Europe’s future depends entirely on whether Europe can recover and remain competitive in key sectors of tomorrow’s economy. Such a vision necessarily requires the promotion and more emphasis on the technological development of scientific research