Europe is falling behind Asia and America in the chief driver for future economic prosperity and growth, which is technology investment. Britain, the chief Eurosceptic country, is absolutely no over achiever in this area. It can't be boiled down to anti or pro European stances. Opinion formers ought to be debating if and then how Europeans, who are in the same boat, can collaborate when competing on a global scale. That is not airy fairy euro idealism, but clever self interest. However, debates about science and technology will probably be as marginal in these Euro elections as they always have been in national ones.