A fact-finding trip to Budapest has left MEPs from across the political spectrum uneasy. Their impressions of deteriorating academic freedom and self-censorship are at odds with how government representatives portrayed things

The initiative brings together partners from strong, moderate, and emerging innovator regions, to support women innovators and spread the entrepreneurial mindset. Women entrepreneurs in Widening countries give their views of what needs to change

Member states have almost settled on a call to make immediate open access the default, with no author fees. But some say the Council needs to do more to prevent AI-generated papers threatening the integrity of the scientific record

Marc Lemaître says Europe has a significant gap to fill in terms of the technologies needed to make the transition to a green economy - but it can be done

London and Brussels are still to agree on terms for the UK to join the €95.5B research programme and in response to pleas from researchers, the prime minister sends a mixed message on getting association over the line

A compromise is reached after member states vetoed the transfer of €400M from the EU research programme. €325M for the €3.3B initiative to reboot semiconductor manufacturing in the EU will come from Digital Europe

A Budapest university that is not affected by the EU block on funds has received emails from worried grant partners after an unclear message was posted on the EU’s funding portal

Science leaders once more make the case for UK joining the €95.5B research programme. ‘Association with Horizon is crucial for the success of UK science and therefore the future of our country’, MPs are told

Respondents name climate change, energy supply and biodiversity as top priorities for the second half of the EU research programme

The results of the largest ever public consultation on the past, present and future of the European research and innovation programmes are in. Here, research commissioner Mariya Gabriel sets out the highlights