Éanna Kelly

Open letter tells prime minister Boris Johnson to "stand on the right side of history". Meanwhile EU is reluctant to follow the US and back vaccines waiver

Head of EU pharma trade body says waiver would ‘open the door to counterfeit vaccines’ and kill incentives to tackle dangerous virus variants. ‘Who will make the vaccine next time?’ one pharma chief asks

New route opens for science heavyweights, who will now be able to bypass normal immigration rules.

MEP Dragoș Tudorache is concerned a weighty regulatory regime will hold back AI developers in Europe

MEPs vote to finalise bloc’s first-ever dedicated programme for military research. Final budget is €5B lower than originally planned

EU officials expected to revise proposal to bar the three non-EU countries from quantum and space R&D, after call for full participation gains wide support. Excluding them would ‘only impact negatively on ourselves in the most unaffordable manner’

Frustrations boil over in Brussels as long-running treaty saga drags on

Leading research universities come together to denounce proposal to ban neighbours from EU quantum and space projects. ‘An EU-first approach weakens everyone,’ says one

Officials want to rein in applications such as live facial scanning, but pledge to promote AI with ‘sandboxes’ that allow companies to have early discussions with regulators on acceptable uses

Trudeau’s government sets out massive spending for research and tech development – but snap election could scupper plans