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An analysis of the first two years of Horizon 2020 lays bare the growing competition for EU research money. The chances of securing a grant are now around half what they were in Framework Programme 7

The UK is to ratify the Unified Patent Court Agreement. That flies in the face of prime minister Theresa May’s pledge to be free of the EU Court of Justice - and hints at a ‘soft’ Brexit

European Commission sets out a strategy to make internet-connected vehicles widespread by 2019. The aim is to improve road safety and fuel efficiency

A just-launched university lobby group wants to find new ways to recognise excellent research across the whole of the EU

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