Peter Koekoek

Excellence - not geography - should determine where Europe spends its research budget, Greek MEP and professor Ioannis Tsouklas tells Science|Business.

Dutch MEP Judith Merkies tells Science|Business that ambitious legislation is necessary to brings innovation policy closer to Europe’s citizens.

Supporters of R&D funding in Parliament are pushing to defend the EU’s flagship Framework Programme 7 from possible budget cuts, according to a leading MEP.

EU Commissioner for Research, Innovation and Science, Máire Geoghegan-Quinn, has called for fresh ideas from parliament, and the public and private sectors.