Translate the following English sentence to French:
"What research basically needs is an increase in its funding, which is unacceptably low for the European Union as a whole (1.8% of GDP compared with 2.8% in the USA and 2.9% in Japan), while countries such as Greece, which is at the bottom of the EU league, spend a miserable 0.5%."
Ce dont la recherche a principalement besoin est l' augmentation du financement qui, pour l' ensemble de l' UE, est inacceptablement bas (1,8 % du PNB contre 2,8 % aux États-Unis et 2,9 % au Japon), et qui, dans des pays comme la Grèce qui occupe la dernière place dans l' UE, se situe au niveau tragique de 0,5 %.