The World - News from July 18, 1985
With an initial pledge from France of $115 million, President Francois Mitterrand kicked off a West European high-technology project intended to compete with strategic research in the United States and Japan. However, the sponsoring European Community soon bogged down in disagreement over specific steps on how to advance the Eureka project, officially described as non-military.
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