Jean-Claude Juncker

Following tough negotiations, the European Commission has announced it will cut €500M less from the Horizon 2020 research programme, after additional money is found in the EU budget

The EU is working to finish tough negotiations over Juncker’s new investment fund, which proposes to take €2.7B out of research coffers. Insiders warn that contrasting opinions over how best to divide cuts have yet to be resolved

As the row over where the money for the European Fund for Strategic Investment is to come from rumbles on, the EIB announces loans for four renewable energy and strategic infrastructure projects, earmarking them for backing from the Juncker fund

MEPs are unhappy with the EIB pre-empting approval of the investment fund by the European Parliament. Others are concerned about a return to spending on ‘white elephant’ infrastructure projects

Italy, France, Spain and Germany offer up their billions to help stir up the pot

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

Member states line up 2,000 project proposals in transport, energy and research, for funding from the EU’s new investment scheme

In 2013, the growth rate of private R&D investment in Europe fell to 2.9 per cent, due to falling corporate profits and a weak pharma and tech sector

Science|Business reveals member states’ bids for education projects they want to see funded under the EU’s new €315B Fund for Strategic Investment, unveiled last week