The European Union member states want to ensure that all scientific articles are freely accessible by 2020 so that anyone can optimally reuse research data.
At the meeting of the Competitiveness Council in Brussels on May 27, EU member states also decided that founders of foreign start-ups should be able to obtain a European visa and that EU legislation should take into account its impact on innovation—what they call the Innovation Principle.
The outcome of the meeting was a new holy trinity of free data, resting on three main tenets: "Sharing knowledge freely," "open access," and "reusing research data.

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