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As election count drags on, analysts warn that clean energy plans will face stiff opposition

Most scientists say they want to put the ‘lost opportunities’ of the Trump years behind them

Shadow industrial strategy minister tells Science|Business she has doubts about proposed new funding agency and says it will be ‘a failure’ if UK doesn’t participate in future EU research programmes

The European Commission has put forward a calendar of policy initiatives for 2021, putting flesh on the proposal to set up a biomedical research modelled on the US Biomedical Advanced Research and Development Authority

With two weeks until the US presidential election, there’s agreement the chilling effect US/China tensions are having on research will continue - regardless of who wins

Research ministers agree to erect barriers against Chinese and US giants taking part in EU research programme, in strategic move against foreign technology dominance

In what is promised as one of many initiatives to reduce dependence on US and Chinese technology, the EU public-private partnership on high performance computing gets twice as much money and an extended brief

The COVID-19 crisis has hammered home the extent of EU dependence on Chinese and US digital technologies. To turn the tide, the emphasis must be on frontier research and translating the outputs to products and jobs