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Joint European Commission and OECD study of 36 countries finds big disparities in outcomes and says governments should spend more on public health and prevention to cut premature deaths

With growth forecasts sharply down from before the referendum, the pledge to balance the budget by 2020 is abandoned. New borrowing will allow for a Keynesian-style splurge on infrastructure and R&D

Horizon 2020-funded researchers in poorer countries of the EU are paid less than if they worked on projects funded by their national governments. Two Romanian MEPs have written to Jean-Claude Juncker to complain about this discrimination

The EU Commission has proposed a European Open Science Cloud. Science|Business, following its September 20 members’ conference on the topic, offers this primer

Insolvency rule reshape a bid to save 200,000 companies a year

European Institute of Innovation and Technology picks TUMunich to lead a new food group, but rejects a separate bid to start an industrial project

Elisabeth Koffeman and Niels van Bakel, two researchers at the Dutch National Institute for Subatomic Physics (NIKEF), discuss x-ray CT scans, seismic sensors, and collaboration with industry

Europe has the opportunity to enhance its innovation capacity by strengthening cooperation between analytical research institutes and companies, providing industry with new ways to access expertise and powerful state of the art machines

Researchers have a role in responding to the rise in populist support. Putting out the message about the value of the R&D it funds will help the EU to demonstrate its worth and relevance

According to new Nature Index, collaboration between scientists in the UK and those elsewhere in the EU increased over the past four years

Topping up the Juncker Plan would be premature and is not supported by evidence, concludes the European Court of Auditors. The Commission’s riposte is that the claim is “plain wrong”

The Scientific Advice Mechanism team has delivered its first report, concluding a new way of assessing vehicle exhaust gases will reduce discrepancies between the lab and the road

What Trump’s election could mean for science and technology – if we keep our heads

Preparations for future €1B research project include several UK figures