European Union

In a nailbiting vote on Wednesday, MEPs adopted a law on advanced therapies that includes treatments resulting from embryonic stem cell research.

If the European Union favours innovation, as it claims, can we have some action on advanced therapies to prove it, please?

European lawmakers are set to sign off on an EU-wide law on advanced therapies. But an attempt to limit the law has sparked a last-minute lobbying drive from the industry to try to avert the exclusion of stem cell therapies.

Europe needs to knock down national boundaries, share technology and build a competitive defence industry, Commissioner Gunter Verheugen told the recent European Defence Agency conference in Brussels

Who cares about Brussels? Apparently scientists do, with over 200,000 application forms for its €4 billion fund already downloaded. What next? Commissioner Janez Potočnik wants an EU-wide debate.

The Lisbon strategy aim of making Europe the leading knowledge-based economy remains a far-off aspiration. Now the UK wants a fresh approach to the single market to move things forward.

The DETECT-it 2 project aims to find opportunities for SMEs to participate in the first call of the 7th Framework Programme.

Europe’s small biotechs have leapt to take advantage of the European Medicines Agency’s (EMEA) office for SMEs, according to a review of its first year in operation.