The EU is working to finish tough negotiations over Juncker’s new investment fund, which proposes to take €2.7B out of research coffers. Insiders warn that contrasting opinions over how best to divide cuts have yet to be resolved
The taxi company bounces back after its latest set-back in Europe. Meanwhile, lawmakers in Brussels are exploring their options for regulating the service
As the row over where the money for the European Fund for Strategic Investment is to come from rumbles on, the EIB announces loans for four renewable energy and strategic infrastructure projects, earmarking them for backing from the Juncker fund
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.
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
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