Jyrki Katainen tells MEPs they will retain scrutiny over the InvestEU umbrella fund, under which the Commission is proposing to centralise all EU investment schemes

Draft plans for the next EU research programme include lots of hot-button issues – from terrorism to healthcare inequality – that could attract broader political support

Draft paper outlines how ‘focused, simpler and more transparent’ entity would merge or replace some 40 financial instruments

With military R&D on the rise everywhere, US Office of Naval Research plans more basic research grants and scouting offices around the world

Time for an urgent rethink on new copyright rules, say 23 research groups

New investment vehicle seeded with €410M of public money aims to attract pension funds and sovereign wealth funds to back early-stage companies and help them reach €1B ‘unicorn’ status in Europe

Freeing research funder from European Commission oversight will cut red tape, UK science academy says. The idea has some broader support among scientists

A report by the European Parliament’s science and technology options assessment panel calls for the Commission and member states to put more effort into bridging the geographical divide in research and innovation

“Any VC firm will tell you – meeting people is more important than the ideas,” says EU Research Commissioner

Bernard Bigot, director-general of the world's biggest nuclear fusion project, tells Science|Business the perpetually out-of-reach energy source is finally in sight – so long as Trump does not scale back US involvement