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A new push to cool what critics perceive as the over-active Brussels legislative machine is welcomed by industry, but denounced by NGOs as a bonfire of standards

UK-EU relations figured in the decision to create a seven-member science panel in Brussels. EC’s director-general details the hows and whys of the new system.

Panel’s creation next Autumn is aimed at ending a Brussels dispute over who gives scientific advice on controversial issues like GMOs

Experimenting on animals is unreliable and wasteful says one side, while the other says it underlies research breakthroughs. Both agree alternative methods should be advanced

The 2015 EU Innovation Union Scoreboard shows that almost half of the member states scored less than in previous years due to economic slowdown in the private sector

There are many potential commercial gems in the work being done by ERC grantees. European business angels looking for new investments should check it out

The European Strategic Policy Centre, which replaces the defunct BEPA service, has published two short papers dealing with Europe’s migration crisis and the Asian Infrastructure Investment Bank

The scene is set for intense lobbying by scientists and journal publishing companies between now and the autumn, when long-awaited reforms of EU copyright law must address the contentious issue of text and data mining

Animal rights groups demand the European Commission scraps animal testing in research

The EU's highest court has dismissed two legal challenges brought by Spain against plans to create a single European patent system for EU countries