1. "Europe" isn't doing the research, some European researchers are.
It's EU funded and coordinated research. It should have been "EU is testing...", because Europe is a continent, but otherwise it's correct.
You can add it up here. The EU has more than twice the capacity of the US, Spain and Denmark are particularly impressive.
Here's the same for photovoltaics, if you're interested.
When you look for a job, I doubt that studying in a foreign country is likely to add much, if any. It may even raise questions as to your diligence and motivation toward your career rather than fun.
How odd. Over here, having spent one or two semesters in a foreign country is almost mandatory. It shows you can rely on yourself, are open for new experiences and culturally curious. Typically, it also improves your foreign language skills.
But that might be a cultural difference right there.
Adobe is announcing tonight that the Flex SDK will be open sourced under the Mozilla public license, the same license that they open sourced the Action Script VM under (the Tamarin project). The move is just the latest in a trend of an increasingly open ecosystem around Flash and Flex which started with the Tamarin project.
Eureka! -- Archimedes