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A letter taped to the gate of the door of the Ministry of Economy and Competitiveness is the new symbol of the collapse of research in Spain. It is an unanswered letter recipient and absent, despite being backed by the entire scientific community and the signing of more than 45,000 citizens asking the Government to save the R + D + i of an agony that condemns his death by successive cuts, which account for more than 40% over the 2009 budget, snip that only in so far short PP legislature rose to 30%. The letter was to be delivered yesterday the minister Luis de Guindos, who was not, although the president of the Confederation of National Associations of Spain, Carlos Andradas, managed for several days the meeting. Was also absent Secretary of State for R & D + i, Carmen Vela, who had another act. And there was delivered to the record because only let in seven representatives of associations, with reporters barred access. He was eventually hung on the doo r.

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“We are orphans»

“We are orphans of the Ministry of Economy. We are in the hands of people who despise science, “he lamented Andradas. “His indifference is very significant, because it reveals that the ministry is not interested in science in this country,” said Amaya Valdemoro, president of the Platform for Research Digna, one of the two people who read a letter that, among other claims, asks the commitment to reach an investment in R + D + i of 2% in the period 2013 to 2016, not 2020, as is now proposed. Valdemoro read the manifesto in the lounge of the CSIC with historical cram. As was also the manifestation history that followed towards the ministry and was seconded by marches in other twelve cities of Spain. At least in the last thirty years can not remember such a mobilization by Spanish scientists, who joined Madrid over five thousand.

is your answer to paralysis leading to a lost year. Project grants national plan last year have not been released and the call has not come out this year, so it is difficult to be resolved. Nor squares are replaced retiring staff, even with the 10% allowed by law, and the CSIC has lost in one year more than 2,400 temporary jobs. And more. “The scientific policy of the Government is the dismantling of the R + D + i public” summarizes Valdemoro.