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The decision to scrap the post of chief scientific adviser was “particularly disturbing” and risks ceding ground to vested interests. The EU must have a new source of impartial scientific advice, Roberto Bertollini tells Science|Business

Europe’s leading scientific institutions will work with less-developed regions to start-up new research centres

With Research Commissioner Carlos Moedas expected to devise ways to ensure EU policy benefits from scientific insight in the next few months, thoughts turn to what form the advice will take, and how to avoid the banana skins of the past

If money is to be taken from the Horizon 2020 pot, there should be oversight from science to ensure research and innovation is not weakened, says an open letter from Europe’s leading scientific groups

The budget of the Netherlands Organisation for Scientific Research should be absorbed by the European Research Council. A proviso that projects backed by Dutch money be conducted in the Netherlands would strengthen the country’s research, says Luc Soete, Rector Magnificus, Maastricht University

Officials gathered in Brussels this week to untangle some of the messy, competing goals for making European energy greener, cheaper and more modern. Cutting energy use is the leading priority, a Commission adviser told the meeting

Accusations fly as the European Commission releases details of the money its €315B investment plan will take out of the EU’s Horizon 2020 kitty. The European Institute of Innovation and Technology faces the deepest cut

With the post of EU chief science adviser axed, Research Commissioner Carlos Moedas is to look at new ways of providing independent scientific inputs to policymaking. A list of the options will be presented before the summer, he tells Science|Business

As the EU lays out some of its hoped-for outcomes from controversial EU-US trade talks in pharma, medical devices, energy and other fields, the European Ombudsman insists more transparency is needed

Allowing academics to move their pensions from country-to-country when taking up jobs at institutions across the EU has broad support. But there is a swathe of technical and legal detail to sort out and universities need to sign up