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Only 5 of 19 cities bidding to host the European Medicines Agency would attract enough current employees for operations to continue as normal. Moving to one of the 8 least popular cities risks permanent damage, the agency warns

French President looks to science, technology and education to revive Europe – and gives a political boost to Moedas proposal for a new innovation council

Alternative for Germany’s wins in the general election could further fuel funding wars in Brussels, as EU hurries to set its next long-term budget. The prospect of securing more funding for research is dimmed

The next €1B flagship projects will target ICT, energy and health, according to the draft work programme for 2018-2020 published by the Commission

As WHO warns the antibiotics pipeline does not address the threat of bacterial resistance, the EU must step up and do more to galvanise R&D, accelerate innovation and help shape a coordinated global response to the impending crisis

A broad package of initiatives includes €50M for a pilot of a new European Cybersecurity Research and Competence Centre to train specialists and an EU-wide cyber security certification scheme

Máire Geoghegan-Quinn recruited to RAND Europe advisory board

Budget Commissioner Günther Oettinger pleads with governments to reverse proposed €500M cut to next year’s Horizon 2020 budget next year saying, “If you are not prepared to invest in 2018, you will have to invest more in 2019 and 2020”

An assessment of the European Research Council’s outputs says 73 per cent represent breakthroughs or major advances

With its teaching licence revoked and the forced removal from its premises, the European University in St Petersburg is on life support. “We have lost virtually everything,” says one of its professors

Ex-MEP Vicky Ford joins UK Parliament science committee following storm over all-male line-up

The centrepiece of Framework Programme 9 is to be ten moonshot projects that inspire the public and connect people to EU R&D. Researchers are starting to pitch in with their ideas

The largest and most powerful X-ray laser in world has opened in Hamburg. The machine can generate ultrashort X-ray flashes 27,000 times per second, with a brilliance that is a billion times higher than the best conventional X-ray radiation sources.