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Consolidation helps the scientific opportunity.

The scientific opportunities are the same. They are connected to the machine that is the same in both cases. It is more a matter of politics, culture and economy, as said elsewhere.

I am not so sure CERN needs to be consolidated. Can you please extent this comment a little bit. I am no really sure to see what you mean.

What I guess he means by that is the seamless running of the project since it'd be close.

By consolidation, I mean building on what is already established

Ah ok, you meant extending the existing facilities. Because in terms of people, I am not sure this will change anything.