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The UK decision to leave the EU cuts at science’s core ethos of openness. As exit negotiations lurch along, researchers from across Europe are yet to spot a bright side to losing such an important science partner

While the country has a policy of military neutrality, the changing nature of threats, and Brexit, have shifted attitudes, Mark Ferguson says

Jean-Pierre Bourguignon urges researchers to press their governments for a bigger EU research budget

Carlos Moedas bemoans erosion of trust in science and fact that truth is now seemingly immaterial. “Politicians lie, people still vote for them, how crazy is that?” he tells the Euroscience Open Forum meeting in Toulouse

International Science Council unites 180 natural and social sciences organisations ‘to make the voice of science heard by those taking decisions’. One route to increasing influence will be to piggy-back the lobbying might of private sector research

MEPs plan further debate in September on new law pitting Internet companies against artists

Innovative SMEs in Spain, Italy and France grabbed the lion’s share in this year’s round of financing

In the face of prolonged legal limbo, the university decides to continue recruiting students for its Budapest campus. In parallel, a new site in Vienna will open for students in 2019 academic year

There should be wider consultation before the government enacts a law giving it control of what research its institutes are allowed to  carry out, the academies say

An article in conservative magazine Figyelo smears researchers studying immigration, gay rights and gender, in escalating conflict between government and Hungarian Academy of Sciences 

Two researchers critique the methodology the Commission uses to compile its annual innovation rankings – and urge a different approach

Latest EU innovation index shows strong performance on the bloc’s borders – and Germany sagging – feeding into Brexit debate

Vytenis Andriukaitis calls ‘fake news’ on Trump drug price blame game. Tariffs on medicines – if ever proposed by the US – would be ‘a humanitarian tragedy’, he says