Florin Zubașcu

Research and education commissioners say they wish Central European University could stay in Budapest, while academics hit out at limp response from Brussels

Litigation has delayed full implementation of the largest research infrastructure in central and eastern Europe

Rector Michael Ignatieff says the decision is ‘a dark day for academic freedom’ in Hungary and decries the lack of tougher response from Brussels and EU capitals

The change is intended to enable researchers to access structural funds for projects reviewers say are excellent, but which don’t make the cut for Horizon Europe grants

Decision on how to organise synergies between EU’s research pot and other funding streams to be kicked down the road for the Romanian presidency to settle

More than 20 per cent of 2018 research and innovation budget is lost as research ministry fails to launch calls

A long-debated research and education reform aims to pave the way for universities to become international R&D players

EU’s poorest country is the exemplar for why national systems need fixing before there is any preferential treatment in Horizon Europe. As things stand, more funding for R&D in Romania would be ‘money thrown out of the window’

Committee of the Regions throws some weight behind the proposal to use quotas to bridge the west - east research and innovation gap under Horizon Europe