What measures can European countries implement to stop Brain Drain?

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Résumé

Essay on the Brain Drain effect in the contemporary world : What measures can European countries implement to stop Brain Drain?

Extract:

When Valerio Dorrello looks around his lab, he sees a miniature European Union. The Italian postdoctoral fellow stands at his sink, changing solutions for one of his experiments. A Spanish colleague, Virginia Amador, pours a gel between glass plates, while a German researcher named Tarig Bashir works on a computer nearby. Their primary investigator, Michele Pagano, is Italian. Two other postdocs are Italian, too, while two more are French. There's such a jumble of languages in the group, which is doing cancer research, that its members have talked about putting up a keyword chart by the telephone with basic phrases in all their languages, "so anyone can say, 'He's not here' in Italian if my mom calls," says Dorrello, punctuating his Neapolitan-accented staccato with laughs. "We're going to make it with flags and everything."

What's not so funny in this extract from “TIME MAGAZINE” for European policymakers is that this lab isn't in Brussels or Paris or any other E.U. capital. It's at the New York University (N.Y.U.) School of Medicine. All over the U.S., such research facilities are teeming with bright, young Europeans, lured by America's generous funding, better facilities and meritocratic culture. In Italy, Mr Dorrello, the Italian postdoc would have earned maybe €900 a month. At N.Y.U., he gets nearly three times that. In Europe, it's well known that the U.S. is a place where you can do very good science and where you are very much paid for that. So it's not surprising if many European scientists are tempted by crossing the Atlantic. In some way these researcher migration can be [...]

Outline:

I) Balance of the situation
II) Europe's weaknesses in the area of research
III) European countries have to react: but how?

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