EU Council meeting expected to see joint declaration by eastern agriculture and research ministers - a rare effort at coordinated east European lobbying over research in Brussels

Autonomous vehicles, 6G mobile and an expansion of the Innovative Medicines Initiative to take in medical devices, diagnostics, vaccines and biopharmaceuticals are on the list of public-private partnerships. Six existing partnerships march on, with fresh objectives

Virtually all current joint undertakings are slated to continue in some form, alongside new partnerships on driverless cars, space, and clean steel

A rough draft of an implementation plan for Horizon Europe puts forward 18 suggested topics for EU research partnerships

Pioneer of nanomedicine will steer the ERC’s scientific council during the transition to Horizon Europe

A total of 75 successful applicants, divided equally among five themes, will be responsible for designing and managing the missions

‘It’s about the respect’: Science|Business reconstructs how disputes over the demand for equal pay for researchers from poorer EU13 countries played out in negotiations over the planned €94.1 billion R&D programme

He’s spent five years as vice chairman of the European Parliament’s ITRE committee, overseeing Horizon 2020, but as he bows out, retiring MEP Hans-Olaf Henkel, tells Science|Business why he doesn’t believe in the R&D programme

A €1.7 billion microelectronics project – and a big battery project in development – are first of a new crop of industrial partnerships. Vestager offers guidelines for EU clearance 

European Innovation Council pilot awards grants to 13 projects that are close to commercialisation

Romanian MEP and former deputy prime minister Dan Nica tells Science|Business that Romania and other member states should make more effort to reach the EU target of spending 3% of GDP on research.

EU Research Commissioner Carlos Moedas tells Science|Business he ‘cannot see’ Horizon Europe ‘without the UK’

MEPs give the nod on Horizon Europe and space and digital programmes in their last meeting before the May elections. But it will be down to the new crop of MEPs to negotiate the budget

‘Our task now is to defend our budget,’ EU research commissioner tells MEPs, as plan for Horizon Europe is voted through by industry and research committee

A timeline of what to expect as the EU works out the details of its €94.1 billion research and innovation programme.

Brussels reaches agreement on outline of €38B loan fund, InvestEU

There are hopes for a major shift in the way Brussels funds and organises research into the disease that kills one in four Europeans. But how should funds be targeted to have the biggest benefit?

Big push is needed in Horizon Europe to spread excellence and help research in EU13 member states catch up with the west

Partial agreement means Commission can start work on making sure Horizon Europe begins on time in 2021

The EU is extending its reach in defence with its first co-funded industry projects and €25 million for research. These are pathfinders for the larger ambition of launching a €13B seven-year defence programme in 2021