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Former EU chief science adviser Anne Glover discusses the UK’s handling of the COVID-19 epidemic and if the European Commission is lacking scientific leadership during the crisis

Draft of climate law released this week is the first test of the European Green Deal. Success now rests on reshaping each aspect of EU policy

A Trump salvo against the EU’s Horizon research programme opens a new area of Transatlantic conflict. Time for Europe to step up

Technologies are advancing at an exponential rate. So why aren’t our economies? The father of open innovation gives his view

Research leaders battling EU budget cuts should take a leaf from the farmers’ playbook: Get better organized, and get noisier

Dropping research from the title of incoming R&D commissioner Mariya Gabriel is a worrying sign Brussels is pursuing commercialisation at the expense of basic science, says Svein Stølen, rector of Oslo University

Europe risks missing the next big act in online entertainment: real-time multilingual movie and video streaming, warns KTH professor

Former science minister David Willetts says public research institutes urgently need more processing power

Science diplomacy can work when other kinds of politics and diplomacy have failed, says Carlos Moedas, outgoing commissioner for research and innovation

Anita Krohn Traaseth, member of the European Innovation Council’s advisory board, says Europe can take the lead in the coming wave of technology-driven growth