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The government’s decision is the first time an EU country has unilaterally barred universities from issuing degrees in a certain subject. Critics say it sets a dangerous precedent for state intervention in other academic subjects

Plants traits introduced by Crispr gene editing will be subject to the same lengthy regulatory process as 1980s-style genetically modified organisms containing genes from other species, Europe’s highest court rules

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