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€2B from the country’s pandemic recovery fund is to be spent on quantum technology as Germany leads a European push to move the field from research to the mainstream

US secretary for agriculture says Europe’s plan to make agriculture more sustainable could stifle innovation, cut agricultural output and put transatlantic trade at risk. The EU commissioner says quality not quantity is what counts

Police, border force, the Joint Research Centre and national research labs to work together on a new innovation hub, as part of strategy to prevent and combat crime, terrorism and cyber threats

Viewpoint: The success of open science depends on protecting academic data from commercial exploitation

Robert-Jan Smits says move by scientific council sends the wrong message, particularly given the agency is pushing for a bigger budget

Dramatic U-turn by Europe’s premier research agency casts doubt on feasibility of scheme to make scientific papers free to read as soon as they are published

Feedback on EU white paper on regulating applications such as self-driving cars and facial recognition provides mixed picture for policymakers

Caught between ‘Big Brother China and Big Data US’, Europe is out to define its own path on the technology, amid fears that regulation could kill the sector - or arrive too late to prevent harm

The €1B programme, launched in 2013, is in its last 3 years. After facing controversy for putting computer models before neuroscience, the project now aims to consolidate its legacy in a single, integrated, open science platform

The new committees are to scrutinise the EU’s big cancer push, the legislative path towards first AI law, and if misinformation on social media calls for stricter controls

AMR Action Fund will support biotechs working on later stages of clinical development, with the aim of delivering 2 - 4 new antibiotics by 2030

AI, electronics, plastics, cloud computing, pandemic research – all are on an long list of ambitious targets Berlin plans over the next six months

Research minister says country has become a hotspot for the technology, with EU looking to limit dependence on Chinese imports