SCIENCE journalists from the Soviet Union and Eastern Europe returned
this week from their first free and open discussions with their Western
counterparts. At the end of a meeting in Krems, Austria, they issued a joint
declaration emphasising that freedom of knowledge and research was 鈥榓 prerequisite
for the solution of problems facing humankind鈥�.
The journalists, from 21 of Europe鈥檚 26 countries, agreed that science
writing had taken on 鈥榓 new significance鈥� in the light of profound political
and social change in Europe. They called for greater cooperation including
the establishment of a European Science Journalists鈥� Academy.
