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Parliament calls for plan to make decarbonised hydrogen production commercially competitive. But there is disagreement on using hydrogen from fossil fuel sources to promote infrastructure and market development in the meantime

EU officials risk ‘drowning’ the alliances in ‘too many demands and a push towards enlargement’, while red tape blocks agreement on joint degrees

Universities fear they will be cut out of Horizon Europe. Long-running treaty saga carries ‘the threat of unequal treatment and increasing isolation’ for Swiss research, they say

With a struggle to attract foreign talent due to low salaries, and pandemic-driven economic crisis sparking cuts in national science budgets, researchers in EU13 countries are puzzling over how to tap new research programme to strengthen R&D systems

A new report by Euroseeds, and the European Commission’s overt support, gives more ammunition for advocates of gene editing in crops

In one of the biggest spending plans of its kind in the world, the government commits to develop country’s first quantum computer

Open letter tells prime minister Boris Johnson to "stand on the right side of history". Meanwhile EU is reluctant to follow the US and back vaccines waiver

Romania was to be a founding member of the new consortium, but a long-standing political wrangle over equipment contract and operational autonomy has now prompted the Czech Republic and Hungary to move forward alone

Commission must explain how it can achieve technological autonomy without a clearer plan, and a stricter timeline for launching new technologies by 2030, MEPs say

Pan-EU tracking is needed to measure progress of the Commission’s grand plan to make Europe an innovation  powerhouse, says start-up group