Nicholas Wallace

He’s spent five years as vice chairman of the European Parliament’s ITRE committee, overseeing Horizon 2020, but as he bows out, retiring MEP Hans-Olaf Henkel, tells Science|Business why he doesn’t believe in the R&D programme

The final budget is not yet agreed, but shadow committee has begun work on bringing the outline agreement on the programme to life

A €1.7 billion microelectronics project – and a big battery project in development – are first of a new crop of industrial partnerships. Vestager offers guidelines for EU clearance 

Commissioners sign off on experimental ‘matrix‘ design for DG Research that also retains international division, ending months of speculation

European Innovation Council pilot awards grants to 13 projects that are close to commercialisation

Romanian MEP and former deputy prime minister Dan Nica tells Science|Business that Romania and other member states should make more effort to reach the EU target of spending 3% of GDP on research.

EU Research Commissioner Carlos Moedas tells Science|Business he ‘cannot see’ Horizon Europe ‘without the UK’

MEPs vote in favour of a deal with the EU Council on InvestEU, which will provide loan guarantees for research and innovation projects

MEPs sign-off on most of the content of the proposed €13B EU defence fund, but the budget remains to be agreed

MEPs give the nod on Horizon Europe and space and digital programmes in their last meeting before the May elections. But it will be down to the new crop of MEPs to negotiate the budget