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Gernot, Just a quick response regarding your comments on Section Editors in anticipation of our meeting next month. You and I seem to be living in different worlds. In my experience having a sympathetic and knowledgeable Editor (and especially Section Editors who may make the decisions and set the t...

Open Access: A move to more open access would only be realistic if most of the other reputable journals go the same route. For the researcher it involves the extra cost of page charges at a time of tight research funding. Why pay page charges for publication in Union journals as long as other top jo...

Dear Sven, I am available to participate in a meeting in Europe on November 14 and November 24-25, but not on November 10-13. I agree with all the arrangements you describe, except the part about procedure for selecting the section-editors. Consulting the GA would be too cumbersome and time-consumin...