Commissioners sign off on experimental ‘matrix‘ design for DG Research that also retains international division, ending months of speculation

Romanian MEP and former deputy prime minister Dan Nica tells Science|Business that Romania and other member states should make more effort to reach the EU target of spending 3% of GDP on research.

EU Research Commissioner Carlos Moedas tells Science|Business he ‘cannot see’ Horizon Europe ‘without the UK’

Some scientists want to call the whole thing off, while a minority want to leave: emotions are running high in universities ahead of UK’s strange EU election next month

MEPs give the nod on Horizon Europe and space and digital programmes in their last meeting before the May elections. But it will be down to the new crop of MEPs to negotiate the budget

‘Our task now is to defend our budget,’ EU research commissioner tells MEPs, as plan for Horizon Europe is voted through by industry and research committee

A timeline of what to expect as the EU works out the details of its €94.1 billion research and innovation programme.

There are hopes for a major shift in the way Brussels funds and organises research into the disease that kills one in four Europeans. But how should funds be targeted to have the biggest benefit?

Big push is needed in Horizon Europe to spread excellence and help research in EU13 member states catch up with the west

Partial agreement means Commission can start work on making sure Horizon Europe begins on time in 2021