Table 1 – The objectives of the single area for European science

Dahrendorf’s objectives under this concept of a single area for European
science (see table 1) reiterated mainly those proposed by Spinelli a year before. He also
stressed that ‘Community activities in the fields of R&D shall neither represent a copy
of, nor be in competition to, national activities’ and that ‘the formulation of a research
and development policy for the Community is a task of high complexity.’