Regional policy

Shift to using regional funds for near-market research will undermine fundamental research in countries with small national R&D budgets. The European Commission is ‘misjudging the needs of less developed regions’

Committee of the Regions throws some weight behind the proposal to use quotas to bridge the west - east research and innovation gap under Horizon Europe

New features in cohesion funding include incentives for cross-border investment and a dramatically scaled down rulebook

The country’s local governments are mobilising to avert a knock-on budget hit from Brexit