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With a flimsy majority and some of its own MPs in favour of staying in Euratom, the UK government is talking of an “association agreement”. But ending European Court of Justice oversight remains as the red line

New initiative covers a wide swathe of research interests, including climate, marine litter, ocean observation, food security, fisheries management, and ocean technology

The multi-billion euro programme for modernising the EU’s poorest regions is a pile of rules, forms, and duplication. “We became more complicated and more complex every time we spoke about simplification,” concedes EU Regional Commissioner Corina Creţu. “We cannot justify it”

Doubt continues to hang over the future of the court, with the EU’s chief Brexit negotiator suggesting it may have to move after UK leaves the EU

Publishers, researchers and start-ups lobby lawmakers squabbling over the policy minutiae of a largely forbidden hi-tech research tool

The Commission is putting in the money to attract more international researchers after a substantial fall in the demand for grants from countries outside the EU

Tekes and Finpro will merge to form Business Finland, putting all services under one roof, fostering collaboration and supporting cross sector innovation and scale up

Universities are worried that the call from former WTO chief Pascal Lamy for them to nurture more start-up founders and digitise faster puts their broader contributions to society, culture and the economy at risk of being sidelined