Translate the following English sentence to French:
"At the moment, Europe is having to expand its research and technological development capacities, particularly but not exclusively in the field of the new technologies we have discussed today, but also with a view to closing the gap between Europe and its competitors, the greatest of which are the United States and Japan."
L'Europe doit maintenant développer ses capacités de recherche et de développement technologique, surtout mais pas seulement des nouvelles technologies dont nous avons tant parlé aujourd'hui, et combler le fossé qui la sépare de ses concurrents, les États-Unis et le Japon.