A debate on European Union budget reform took place Nov. 28 in Prague’s Evropský dům. The EU has decided to find out what its citizens think about the budget issue, and authorized the European Commission (EC), in cooperation with the European Parliament, to investigate.

Czech researchers drew only 10 percent of the money available from the European Union budget last year and this country was the least effective of all new member states in applying for finances from the current framework EU research program.