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Venture capital investment in EU start-ups is less than one-quarter of US level. Policy shift could help spur more innovation by allowing pension and insurance funds to channel a small fraction of their assets to venture funds

Tibor Navracsics was left with little time to discuss the education portfolio as MEPs questioned him on Hungary’s poor track-record in defending freedom of speech and the rule of law.

Billed as the hearing of the week, Spain’s Commissioner-to-be faced a cacophonous European Parliament. A strong hold on the energy and climate change brief saw him pick up some admirers, but it may not be enough

Romanian Commissioner-designate was criticised for lacking ideas on funding priorities for one of the EU’s largest budgets

Vytenis Andriukaitis pledges to widen access to innovative healthcare across the EU and to keep the highest health and food safety standards in a more equal ‘Health Union’

Carlos Moedas, Portugal’s nominee for EU Commissioner for research, wins over MEPs. Now it’s time for implementation, implementation, implementation, he says

The German Commissioner is due to switch from energy to the digital portfolio. He wants to put the focus on big picture infrastructure investment, but some of his answers indicate he needs time to get to grip with all the issues

Pharma industry denies it lobbied for medicines to move from health to enterprise directorate