If I remember correctly this is an initiative of the French and if enough pull out can the French afford the thing.
+--------------------------------------------------------------------+ | Austria To Pull Out of CERN | | from the matter-of-concern dept. | | posted by kdawson on Friday May 08, @10:31 (Government) | | http://science.slashdot.org/article.pl?sid=09/05/08/1325221 | +--------------------------------------------------------------------+ andre.david notes an AFP report that Austria has announced its intention to [0]withdraw from CERN, citing budget concerns, adding: "Austrian particle physicists are not happy with this. From [1]HEPHY, the Austrian Institute for High Energy Physics: 'All of a surprise Johannes Hahn... announced that he wants to terminate the Austrian membership at CERN... This [would] affect spin-off projects like the planned cancer treatment center MedAustron... which is dependent on collaborating with CERN... Strangely enough this intention just arrives at a time where scientists are about to harvest the fruits of LHC...' Will other countries follow suit?" "Austria is pulling out of the European Organization for Nuclear Research (CERN), Science Minister Johannes Hahn announced Thursday, citing budget concerns. The €20M ($26.9M) yearly membership in CERN... makes up 70 percent of the money available in Austria for participation in international institutes and could be better used to fund other European projects, he said. Hahn said he hoped Austria could find 'a new kind of cooperation' with CERN and described Vienna's withdrawal from the project as a 'pause,' noting that some 30 states were already working together with the Geneva-based centre without being members. The newly-available funds will now allow Austria to take part in new European projects, boost its participation in old ones as well as help the Austrian Science Fund (FWF), the country's main organization funding research." Discuss this story at: http://science.slashdot.org/comments.pl?sid=09/05/08/1325221 Links: 0. http://www.google.com/hostednews/afp/article/ALeqM5gXpK1nNNGu1TG7V0RjfTwt9y3-MA 1. http://www.hephy.at/en/institute/news-archive/ --~--~---------~--~----~------------~-------~--~----~ Thanks for being part of "PoliticalForum" at Google Groups. For options & help see http://groups.google.com/group/PoliticalForum * Visit our other community at http://www.PoliticalForum.com/ * It's active and moderated. Register and vote in our polls. * Read the latest breaking news, and more. -~----------~----~----~----~------~----~------~--~---
