欧洲议会要求对欧洲领袖艰难达成的欧洲长期预算做进一步的协商,议员们称无法接受目前的预算格式。Bethany Bell报道。
The battle over the EU’s long-term budget continues. In February after lengthy and difficult negotiations, national leaders agreed to a 3.3% cut. Countries like Britain want their EU contributions to fall in line with national austerity cuts. But other countries want to protect EU spending arguing that it will help re-launch growth. Now a resolution backed by the main parties in the EU Parliament has demanded further negotiations on the multi-year budget, although it doesn’t explicitly reject the 3% cut.
有关欧洲长期预算的争论仍在继续,二月份经过长期艰难的协商,各国领袖同意削减3.3%。英国等国希望将自己的欧盟贡献削减到与国家紧缩削减相符的水平。但其他国家希望维护欧盟开支,称这将有助于继续增长。目前欧盟议会的主要派别提出一项决议,要求对多年预算做进一步协商,尽管并没明确表示反对3%的削减。
The world’s biggest radio telescope has been inaugurated in Chile on a mountain high above the Atacama Desert. The Alma project, which consists of 66 huge antennae, is expected to provide unprecedented information that may help us understand the origins of the universe. Andreas Lundgren, a Swedish astronomer who works on the project, explained what advantages this radio telescope has over traditional optical telescopes.