Florin Zubașcu

Five year plan for research and innovation puts emphasis on attracting talent from abroad, budget increases to pull in more private sector funding and a reform of funding agencies

Exclusive: Science|Business has obtained drafts of the work programmes for the industry, civil security and health clusters, as well as the Marie Skłodowska-Curie actions, for 2023-24

Research ministers sign Marseille declaration on fundamental values for international scientific cooperation, but these fall far short of addressing how the EU’s foreign science policy should respond to Russia’s invasion of Ukraine

Russian space agency makes threats and says it will allocate ‘unprecedented’ resources to its own space industry – but Western officials are assessing the impact

Universities in Central and Eastern Europe have already begun helping students, academics and researchers affected by the war – but the scale of the problem is still unknown

In letters to EU and UK leaders, House of Lords European affairs committee calls for a ‘high-level political intervention’ to unblock the association talks

EU will not make any payments under existing contracts and has put four new Horizon Europe grant agreements involving Russian partners on hold

Few researchers in Ukraine are able to continue work, and most have left their posts to join the army, hide in bomb shelters or flee the country

Christian Ehler says the EU should suspend Horizon payments to Russia, as Germany freezes all research ties with Russia in unprecedented move

As Science|Business marks the 1000th issue of its newsletter this month, we are struck by the long history of EU argument over how and how much EU R&D programmes should work with defence. Herewith, a few of our past articles in that vein