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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

The European Institute of Innovation & Technology has to swallow a painful 13 percent budget cut, starting with a €25M reduction this year. This will be a spur to become self-financing, the institute says

Fast-charging electric car adapted to fit humid weather is unveiled in Singapore

Europe’s €3B Innovation Medicines Initiative faced scrutiny over pharma companies’ contributions to the programme in the European Parliament this week – and passed the test.

It is easier to win an award from the €1.2B Eurostars programme than Horizon 2020 SME Instrument grants, but you need to find international partners before applying

MEPs are unhappy with the EIB pre-empting approval of the investment fund by the European Parliament. Others are concerned about a return to spending on ‘white elephant’ infrastructure projects

By today’s standards for assessing impact, EU research funding agencies would discard Einstein’s theory of relativity