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More on the 'fifth freedom' and OA If you recall, last month the Council of the European Union agreed that the EU "needs to create a 'fifth freedom' - the free movement of knowledge" (beyond the four freedoms guaranteed by the EU Treaty to assure the movement of goods, services, capital, and labor). But in elaborating what the "free movement of knowledge" meant, the ministers did not mention OA, even though the original documents behind the idea tied it explicitly to OA. Yesterday, Ziga Turk, the Slovenian Minister for Growth, blogged some notes on the Spring European Council (Brussels, March 8-9, 2008). The prime ministers of the 27 EU member states apparently tied the new fifth freedom back to OA, concluding that it entailed:
Update (3/19/08). Also see the EU press release (March 17) on the meeting, containing a slightly different version of the same language:
Update (3/19/08). Also see Ziga Turk's new post on the language of the press release. |