The fate of the €4 billion top-up for Horizon Europe remains uncertain, as Hungary and Poland veto budget deal. Research lobbies continue fight to ringfence the additional money for ERC and Marie Curie grants
Next research programme can start on time, and MEPs also manage to claw back money for health and student exchanges. But there’s disappointment they didn’t salvage more
Reduced EU and national science research spending could undermine the career prospects of up and coming researchers, speakers at the Marie Curie Alumni Association conference warn
Pierre Larrouturou wants member states to agree new financial transaction tax that he says would raise €50B per annum to boost EU budgets for health, research and climate programmes that are essential to pandemic recovery
German MEPs Sven Simon and Christian Doleschal want the commission to come up with a plan to pay researchers whose Marie Curie projects were affected by the pandemic. In parallel, scientists are voicing their concern that a shortage in EU funding could force them to choose career paths in the US or China
Cutting the health budget from €10B to €2B will leave little money for Europe’s Beating Cancer plan, claim MEPs. But health commissioner Stella Kyriakides says funding will come from a range of sources
European Council has so far failed to come up with a proposal that satisfies the parliament’s demand for a €39 billion top-up across 15 flagship programmes
University research groups warn the entry fee to the next EU research programme could be too expensive. But others dispute the view, saying the UK can return to its pre-Brexit success rate for winning grants
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