Florin Zubașcu

€10 billion budget for agriculture R&D is to be spent on studying the environmental impact of farming

Ahead of crunch talks this week, a growing chorus of leaders in Brussels is calling on member states to agree a spending plan that matches EU ambitions in science, digital technologies and greening the continent

‘Grand Challenge Energy’ shows timid effort by Poland to get with the times and increase clean energy investment, as EU gears up for Green Deal ‘paradigm shift’

Setting final details of Horizon Europe could be delayed by difficult budget battle between member states

MEPs say EIT should be more open to new partners in poorer regions and reduce ‘excessive concentration’ on excellence in the evaluation criteria

New commission president is worried ‘severe cuts’ to EU budget would block ambitious innovation agenda

In her first outing as president, Ursula von der Leyen promises to reshape the economy in a ‘European Green Deal’. But the latest proposal on the EU’s next five year budget could thwart this plan

It is naïve to put EU research data on the open science cloud without having a plan to protect intellectual property. ‘That makes me nervous,’ says Joseph Straus, former director of the Max Planck Institute for IP

Not all aspects of international science cooperation are to the liking of researchers and policy makers in central and eastern Europe. They want to see the innovation gap fixed before the EU spends more money abroad

After saying European consortium had failed to deliver, ELI has looked elsewhere. The contract is a sign of strengthening scientific cooperation between Romania and the US