Five questions for the EU Commission, "to estimate whether it is still necessary to continue research destroying embryos and allocating funds to projects for research on embryonic stem cells, in the light of the recent scientific discoveries carried out by Japanese scientists": in short, this is the content of the written question submitted by a group of MEPs from different countries, in relation to the financing of research on stem cells in the European Union. Among the signers, there were the authors of the text, Members of Parliament Mario Mauro and Carlo Casini, as well as Iles Braghetto, Vittorio Prodi, Patrizia Toia, Margrete Auken, Hiltrud Breyer, Peter Liese, Johannes Blokland, Kathy Sinnot, and Bernd Posselt. "Furthermore, we would like to ask the Commission a strategic question said the vice president of the Assembly, Mario Mauro, – on the opportunity to fix a moratorium limiting the use of stem cells in the next few years". "We also hope for a clear position it was the conclusion – on the unlawfulness of patents for these cells, as the German Patent Office and the European Patent Office have stated several times, in unison with a parliamentary resolution".
