Geopolitical imperatives should not give the Commission the right to move funding at its discretion, Lewandowski says

Overcoming regulatory fragmentation is more urgent than the quirky details of R&I programmes, said MEP Christian Ehler and EU research chief Marc Lemaître

Budget amendment from Hungarian MEP Tamás Deutsch would end support for research on gender, Islam and far-right extremism

But restrictions will still be needed, making science “as open as possible, as closed as necessary,” Ehler says

Cyprus wants to reach a ‘partial general approach’ on the next Framework Programme by the end of June