1968 



summit meeting attended by the new member countries in the autumn of 



1972. At this meeting the Community prime ministers gave a new high 



priority to science and technology in the Community context. Last year, 



Euratom was granted a 4-year budget after stumbUng along on stopgap 



. 1-year budgets since 1968, and a reorganization of the agency was decreed. 



The energy crisis gave impetus to energy R and D within the Community 



framework. ... [This article] is an account of the first small steps toward 



development of a genuine European science policy." 



Williams, Roger. European Technology : the Politics of Collaboration. New York, 



John Wiley and Sons, 1973. 214 pp. 



An interesting and useful in-depth analysis of the major nationalistic 

 obstacles to technological cooperation even among countries which are 

 predisposed toward cooperation. Among the cases treated are those of the 

 aircraft industry, space, nuclear research, and computers. 



