MEPs vote in favour of a deal with the EU Council on InvestEU, which will provide loan guarantees for research and innovation projects

Some scientists want to call the whole thing off, while a minority want to leave: emotions are running high in universities ahead of UK’s strange EU election next month

MEPs sign-off on most of the content of the proposed €13B EU defence fund, but the budget remains to be agreed

Parliament backs a new five-year research agreement with Russia, in a display of science diplomacy described as ‘an island of positivity in an ocean of negative relations’

China-EU summit tackles mutual access to funding, research ethics and transparency, but comes up with few specific actions

The project processed more data than any other experiment in history to create an image of the event horizon, the boundary of a black hole, where intense gravity distorts time and space

Buzek, Ehler and Nica are standing again in European elections in May. Rübig, Reda and Henkel are bowing out

Joint European Disruptive Initiative announces €3B fund – but then calls it an April Fool’s prank to draw attention to the fake news problem

The research commissioner calls on researchers to build a stronger role for science in society, and to put more pressure on policy makers

The head of Europe’s defence R&D agency says mindsets have to change. There are plans to launch a €13B EU common defence research programme in 2021 and academics and small companies need to overcome their reluctance to working in this field