Peter Koekoek

As it celebrates its 5th birthday, the European Research Council is not about to give in to pressure to spread grants more evenly across Europe. Excellence will prevail, says president Helga Nowotny

The European Commission proposes to unite national funding agencies in ‘pacts’ to complete the European Research Area (ERA) by 2014 deadline - without further legislation

The European Commission has released its official proposal for Horizon 2020, the EU’s new research funding scheme. Science|Business presents a roundup of first reactions from the European capital.

Volkswagen is the only EU-headquatered company to feature in the Commission’s annual Industrial R&D Investment Scoreboard Top 10

The European Commission’s DG Research director-general Robert-Jan Smits is calling on the European Parliament to help simplify regulations and make the system for public private partnerships more user-friendly

It’s wrong that the lion’s share of research money goes to countries that already have the best science. Funds should be redistributed to build a “stairway to excellence” for all member states, says ITRE

Biofuels are an important element the EU’s future energy mix, but more research is needed to develop fuels that don’t compete with food, says Csaba Tabajdi MEP

A group of MEPs working on plans for the EU’s overall budget from 2014 are pushing for a big boost – to as much as €100 billion - for the next EU research programme, as Maria Da Graça Carvalho, Member of the European Parliament tells Science|Business

Marion Dewar, responsible for innovation policy in the cabinet of Research Commissioner Máire Geoghegan-Quinn, sets out the vision for the Innovation Union.

Members of the European Parliament have expressed concern about the impact that result-based research funding could have on the quality and nature of research.