Alcatel-Lucent: the European WC is asking the EU for a more efficient R&D policy

Members from Alcatel-Lucent’s European work’s council wanted to draw European members of Parliament’s attention to the fact that “in the past, outsourcings were motivated by a will to get closer to their customers’ market,” but that “today they correspond to a mere policy to reduce costs.” In order to anticipate the loss of highly-skilled jobs, the EWC’s members asked Eurodeputies that “Europe starts an offensive industrial policy in the field of Information and Communication Technologies (ICTs