Plenković signals support for high-level proposal to make research, innovation and education ‘a fifth freedom,’ in a speech to the EU annual budget conference

European entrepreneurs are being lured to the US by huge private investment, the German chancellor told research leaders 

Two ministers in the new Polish government tell Science|Business how they intend to improve research and innovation and discuss plans for the national funding agency, which is currently operating under the cloud of a corruption investigation

As the EU paves way for cross-border degrees, universities decry the lack of a dedicated budget for the plan

The head of the EU's research directorate Marc Lemaître bemoans the size of the funding gap that opened up in the early – pre-inflationary - years of the framework programme  

As the EU ups its AI research spending, the hottest grant topics include health and sensors. Patras, Utrecht and the auto manufacturer BMW are among the fastest-growing grant winners

Paolo Gentiloni throws down a radical suggestion for the next Commission to solve Europe’s R&D underinvestment problem. But any extension of joint financing would be controversial

Parliament’s Christian Ehler tells research stakeholders to stop expecting money to be handed down from on high and start fighting for €200B budget for Framework Programme 10

Parliament disappointed with lack of progress as Hungary blocks EU seven-year budget review negotiations. Proposed cuts to R&I still on the table

Documents leaked to Science|Business show the EU research programme could lose as much as €5.3B, as member states scramble to find money to pay back recovery fund loans