{"id":6740,"date":"2006-07-21T08:53:34","date_gmt":"2006-07-21T08:53:34","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blog.beliefnet.com\/viamedia\/2006\/07\/meanwhile-in-germany.html"},"modified":"2006-07-21T08:53:34","modified_gmt":"2006-07-21T08:53:34","slug":"meanwhile-in-germany","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.beliefnet.com\/columnists\/viamedia\/2006\/07\/meanwhile-in-germany.html","title":{"rendered":"Meanwhile in Germany…"},"content":{"rendered":"

Presses EU about embryonic research:<\/a><\/p>\n

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Germany pressed its EU partners to ban European funding for embryonic stem-cell research, a day after President George W. Bush vetoed a bill that would have expanded such work in the United States. <\/p>\n

"The European Union science programme should not be used to give financial incentives to kill embryos," German Research Minister Annette Schavan wrote in a letter seen by Reuters on Thursday before a meeting on EU science funding on Monday. <\/p>\n

"The current proposal from the European Commission and the European Parliament does not rule this out." <\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<\/blockquote>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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