Open letter tells prime minister Boris Johnson to "stand on the right side of history". Meanwhile EU is reluctant to follow the US and back vaccines waiver
Romania was to be a founding member of the new consortium, but a long-standing political wrangle over equipment contract and operational autonomy has now prompted the Czech Republic and Hungary to move forward alone
Commission must explain how it can achieve technological autonomy without a clearer plan, and a stricter timeline for launching new technologies by 2030, MEPs say
Jean-Pierre Bourguignon, president of Europe’s top science agency, discusses the challenges facing Europe’s top science agency in the aftermath of an EU budget that was less ambitious than hoped for
MEPs and research organisations say more needs to be done to align the strategy with research and innovation funding programmes over the next seven years
Head of EU pharma trade body says waiver would ‘open the door to counterfeit vaccines’ and kill incentives to tackle dangerous virus variants. ‘Who will make the vaccine next time?’ one pharma chief asks
Researchers grow frustrated at looming funding gap, with European Commission putting back publication of detailed calls to the end of May. Some commentators suggest the delay is down to row over excluding UK, Israel and Switzerland from space and quantum R&D
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