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As election count drags on, analysts warn that clean energy plans will face stiff opposition

Results announced as European Research Council fights for a bigger 2021 – 2027 budget to maintain its reputation as one of the world’s leading funders of bottom-up excellent science. Success rate in this call was only 7.7%

Most scientists say they want to put the ‘lost opportunities’ of the Trump years behind them

Shadow industrial strategy minister tells Science|Business she has doubts about proposed new funding agency and says it will be ‘a failure’ if UK doesn’t participate in future EU research programmes

Pierre Larrouturou wants member states to agree new financial transaction tax that he says would raise €50B per annum to boost EU budgets for health, research and climate programmes that are essential to pandemic recovery

Pressure is mounting for restrictions on genetically modified organisms to be lifted. The legal framework is not fit for purpose, says a new report

German MEPs Sven Simon and Christian Doleschal want the commission to come up with a plan to pay researchers whose Marie Curie projects were affected by the pandemic. In parallel, scientists are voicing their concern that a shortage in EU funding could force them to choose career paths in the US or China

Parliament’s budget rapporteur goes on hunger strike to protest the council’s unwillingness to top up Horizon Europe and 14 other programmes, as negotiations go past the deadline set by German presidency

Cutting the health budget from €10B to €2B will leave little money for Europe’s Beating Cancer plan, claim MEPs. But health commissioner Stella Kyriakides says funding will come from a range of sources

New documents obtained by Science|Business provide fresh insight into EU funder’s decision to reject its president’s COVID-19 proposal