EU institutions strike late-night deal on €13.5B budget for research in 2020 -  but ’27 Margaret Thatchers around the table’  are considering budget cuts from 2021

As ITRE chair Adina-Ioana Vălean departs to become transport commissioner, European Parliament sources say her successor is likely to be one of three Romanian party colleagues

Negotiations on a ‘Global Partnership’ on artificial intelligence would have OECD, Montreal and Paris as starting points for policy discussions – but other organisations may also emerge

Dropping research from the title of incoming R&D commissioner Mariya Gabriel is a worrying sign Brussels is pursuing commercialisation at the expense of basic science, says Svein Stølen, rector of Oslo University

As member states push for a new research partnership on antimicrobial resistance, EU auditors say efforts to date have failed to reduce the threat to human health

Horizon Europe rapporteur Christian Ehler gives MEPs on the ITRE committee first indication of how much the research programme is likely to be trimmed

Universities are out to cement fresh partnerships, as €120M second round of popular EU competition launches

And as manifesto pledges begin to appear, the UK’s leading science bodies make election plea to be part of Horizon Europe

The number of knee replacements doubled in 16 years, but did recipients’ lives improve as a result? With health expenditure set to outpace GDP growth, collecting data to answer questions like this is crucial

The EU’s Group of Chief Scientific Advisors suggests ‘strengthened’ procedures for delivering evidence-based recommendations to Brussels policy makers