Defence research

The EU is extending its reach in defence with its first co-funded industry projects and €25 million for research. These are pathfinders for the larger ambition of launching a €13B seven-year defence programme in 2021

Draft accord pledges to ‘explore options’ on wider science cooperation in text outlining basis for a trade agreement

In a bid to boost Europe’s overall spending on defence, EIB has struck a deal with the European Defence Agency to increase lending for technologies including sensors and lasers, with both civil and military uses

Europe confronts implications of remarkable upset in US election. ‘He has no idea about technology,’ says MEP