This week in Nations in brief: Hollande pledges to overturn stem-cell law; France and UK to review joint military priorities; Baden-Württemberg hits Advanced Grant jackpot; German innovation house opens in Brazil; Spanish technology centre appoints director; Austrian academy of sciences sends budget SOS; DAAD steps up international collaboration.
Hollande pledges to overturn stem-cell law
François Hollande, the French Socialist Party’s candidate for the 2012 presidential elections, has said he would overturn an effective ban on stem-cell research if elected. Hollande said on 22 February that one of his first priorities as president would be to call on parliament to revisit the 2011 bioethics law, which upholds a ban on embryonic stem-cell research, except where no alternatives are available and then only under strict conditions.
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