EU releases new Horizon 2020 funding plans, announces €450M in ERC basic science grants

Wolfgang Burtscher has been appointed to lead the commission’s agriculture directorate general, effective 1 April

Christian Ehler MEP backs research into new virus detection technology at airports and discusses whether the EU can find the scope to settle its multiannual budget and complete Brexit talks

Selected teams will work on epidemiology, diagnostics, treatments and vaccines

Emmanuel Macron announces sudden aggressive budget boost in ‘an effort not seen since the post-war period’

In exclusive written Q&A with Science|Business, EU commissioner for research, innovation, education and youth vows hundreds of millions for coronavirus R&D but calls on member states to agree on the multiannual budget to avoid delaying critical research.

Further delays to EU multiannual budget would slow down research to deal with coronavirus pandemic, EU research commissioner says

The European Commission’s R&D toolbox in the COVID-19 outbreak includes extended deadlines in Horizon 2020, additional funding opportunities for viral research - and less red tape

EU president Charles Michel says there is ‘strong common will’ between G7 countries to deliver coronavirus vaccine, following reports of big-money overture by president Trump to CureVac

All universities in Italy, Greece, Denmark, Poland, Ireland and Hungary are closed down, as EU education and research ministers meet online to discuss coordinated response