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Since COVID-19, EU leaders are pushing for greater independence from US and Chinese technology. But what would that mean? Science|Business begins a series of special reports and events

Upcoming Horizon Europe soils mission aims to ensure three quarters of European soils are healthy by 2030, slowing climate change and safeguarding food supply

Reinhard Bütikofer is wary of the growing power of China and the reach of companies seen as beholden to the Communist government. His views are typical of the more hawkish approach emerging in Brussels

Demand for grants means many high-quality fundamental research projects will miss out on funding, ERC president says, as the agency takes its fight for a bigger budget to the Euroscience meeting in Trieste

The scientific director of the ILL says EU should contribute more to large research infrastructures, to strengthen the European Research Area

The German presidency of the EU Council wants to push member states to agree on final details of Horizon Europe by the end of September

European Space Agency director Johann-Dietrich Wörner talks to Science|Business about returning to the moon, and growing competition in a new spaceflight era

SPECIAL SCIENCE|BUSINESS SURVEY: EU leaders are moving this Autumn towards a budget agreement for the next big EU R&D programme, Horizon Europe. Science|Business wants to know what its readers think. Tell us your opinion in our one-page online survey.

Travel restrictions and closed or socially-distanced campuses mean many of the class of 2021 won’t leave home, but the commission is injecting €200 million to enable distance learning and keep the Erasmus+ programme on the road

A new public-private Horizon Europe partnership, Processes4Planet, will build on Horizon 2020 efforts, to transform energy-intensive process industries and help the EU reach 2050 climate goals