Florin Zubașcu

Amendment seeking to bridge west – east divide through regional quotas for research funding is roundly rejected. Member states should increase national R&D spending instead

Greater cooperation is needed to address global challenges, but EU bureaucracy and complex rules are undermining scientific partnerships. So will Horizon Europe be more – or less – open to the world?

University heads disagree with Romanian MEP’s proposal that geographic evaluation criteria in the EU 2021 – 2027 research programme could fix EU’s research innovation divide. Excellence is what counts, they say

Eye of the beholder: When it comes to deciding how open research data should be, industry and academia do not have the same vision

Researchers fear attack on Central European University - and academic independence more widely - will not let up, despite new pressure from Brussels

Embracing a global view of EU research infrastructures could boost science diplomacy and break down walls put up by divisive politics. But new rules on cooperation and more funding are needed to deliver the vision

MEPs exercise rarely used powers in bid to force Hungary to reverse violations of EU law, including a lingering threat to shut the Central European University

New tax on activities related to immigration forces Central European University to suspend an EU funded research project on migration policy, in the latest example of government interference in academia

Ministry of Research loses out as the government gives more money to the building of a new cathedral. The budget adjustment is viewed by critics as another case of setting the wrong priorities in the EU’s least innovative country

The government’s decision is the first time an EU country has unilaterally barred universities from issuing degrees in a certain subject. Critics say it sets a dangerous precedent for state intervention in other academic subjects