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New spending splurge comes as part of €130B recovery aid that goes far beyond other eurozone country packages

‘A flood’ of research into new surface coatings that repel the virus are among ideas for making buildings pandemic-proof

A Swedish start-up has a ‘virus certification app’ ready to launch but it faces practical and ethical hurdles. ‘The government is not in our supporter club on this’, says Coronafree’s science adviser

‘When science and politics meet, it can become quite crunchy,’ director general Stephen Quest tells Science|Business

Analysis warns of twin hit of COVID-19 and Brexit to Scotland’s 19 universities, as EU-UK trade talks enter crunch stage

European Commission wants to double the InvestEU loan programme to €75 billion, but research won’t get any more money

But critics say proposed budget does not meet ambitions and new strategies are needed to increase biodiversity and boost greener farming - without reducing yields

Information scientist Kazuhiro Sakurada wants to use large numbers of medical records to predict who is high-risk for coronavirus

The European Commission wants to increase spending on health more than 20-fold and to take a larger role in healthcare policy

Decision to postpone is ‘organisational’ but could be read as a signal to member states and national research ministers to agree on the final details of the research programme before the next EU budget comes into force