Florin Zubașcu

The European Commission wants to green the research agenda and have the new programme running by June, to launch the first joint calls with Horizon Europe

Centre will play a key role in coordinating research and supporting an EU-wide ‘cybersecurity shield’

MEPs say the new budget signals a shifting of priorities away from agriculture and cohesion and towards research and innovation

EU4Health aims to boost innovation in the health sector, help member states ditch paper records and make digitised health systems interoperable

The money will make the EU third biggest investor in defence research in Europe and give it firepower to reduce the longstanding reliance on US military technology

Shift to using regional funds for near-market research will undermine fundamental research in countries with small national R&D budgets. The European Commission is ‘misjudging the needs of less developed regions’

The fate of the €4 billion top-up for Horizon Europe remains uncertain, as Hungary and Poland veto budget deal. Research lobbies continue fight to ringfence the additional money for ERC and Marie Curie grants

New European Court of Auditors report finds there is a risk of further cost increases and delays to the ITER project. All other Horizon 2020 joint undertakings have ‘healthy’ financial management but some are behind schedule on implementation

In ‘last impassioned plea’ dozens of MEPs are asking the EU commission president and German chancellor to defend the budget for Horizon Europe

Public trust in scientific advice would improve if scientists engaged more effectively with the general public, says Rolf-Dieter Heuer, chair of the European Commission’s group of scientific advisors