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Paolo Gentiloni throws down a radical suggestion for the next Commission to solve Europe’s R&D underinvestment problem. But any extension of joint financing would be controversial

The European Defence Fund was set up to support research and development, but it could be rolled into the proposed defence industrial programme, Timo Pesonen, director general for Defence Industry and Space, told MEPs

Milena Stoycheva is an entrepreneur who in June 2023 was handed the keys to Bulgaria’s innovation ministry. She has set her sights on making the country a regional hub for high tech business and, in time, an innovation destination 

Some rectors of the country’s civilian state universities have secured third or even fourth mandates, a trend that is of concern to the European Parliament and others in the higher education sector

Several countries from the western Balkans could end up joining the bloc during the lifespan of the next research framework programme, and there are calls for them to have input on how it is designed

The new law is intended to allow EU citizens to access their health records when in any member state, and to choose whether or not to allow anonymized data to be shared for secondary use in research and public health

After long negotiations MEPs agreed on the EU’s pharmaceutical reform. It includes longer exclusivity for data filed to get marketing approval for new drugs. But pharma still isn’t happy

This year’s EuroScience Open Forum meeting will go ahead as planned in Katowice, but uncertainty looms over the 2026 conference

The BRICS research framework programme, running since 2016, uses strikingly similar language to those run by the EU. But the organisers insist it is not modelled on the EU programmes. Science|Business takes a look

Parliament is against streamlining the EU’s framework programme for R&I, Maria da Graça Carvalho told the Research & Innovation week event in Brussels