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The EU's highest court has dismissed two legal challenges brought by Spain against plans to create a single European patent system for EU countries

The European Institute of Innovation & Technology has to swallow a painful 13 percent budget cut, starting with a €25M reduction this year. This will be a spur to become self-financing, the institute says

Fast-charging electric car adapted to fit humid weather is unveiled in Singapore

Europe’s €3B Innovation Medicines Initiative faced scrutiny over pharma companies’ contributions to the programme in the European Parliament this week – and passed the test.

It is easier to win an award from the €1.2B Eurostars programme than Horizon 2020 SME Instrument grants, but you need to find international partners before applying

The EU needs objective science advice when framing its policies. Action is needed to clarify how and by whom this is delivered, says the former EU science chief Anne Glover

Science advice in Brussels needs improvement, but the “flawed” office of chief science adviser was not the way to do it, says Doug Parr, chief scientist and policy director at Greenpeace UK

MEPs are unhappy with the EIB pre-empting approval of the investment fund by the European Parliament. Others are concerned about a return to spending on ‘white elephant’ infrastructure projects

By today’s standards for assessing impact, EU research funding agencies would discard Einstein’s theory of relativity

Just over a year after its launch, academics and business leaders gave their verdict on the EU’s €80B research programme at a Science|Business conference.

Early figures suggest the EU academic/industrial programme is popular both in Europe and the US

EU training programmes in particle physics are ending at a time when the need for these skills is increasing. As a result, Europe risks losing ground in a field that is key to its competitiveness, says Carsten Welsch

Brussels’s short-lived science advice experiment was “difficult”, and the reaction to the scrapping of the role overblown, says Vladimir Šucha, head of the EU’s in-house science service

Google’s products are systematically displayed at the top of the page, irrespective of relevance to the query, says Competition Commissioner Margrethe Vestager, who also confirmed a separate probe into company’s mobile software Android

Politicians have approved a cap on the volume of biofuel from agricultural crops that can be used for transport