Research commissioner Máire Geoghegan-Quinn went on a tour of Singapore, Australia and New Zealand, between 2 and 9 March, to promote science cooperation with Europe. In Singapore on 3 March, she said: “Europe has been making the news for the wrong reasons recently. Today I want to rewrite the headlines. While clearly we have difficulties, we are taking the right decisions to ensure an economic road to recovery.” She claimed that the EU is committed to sustaining spending on research and innovation.