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European Parliament votes through a comprehensive report on cancer, setting out demands for the EU to do more to prevent, fight and research the disease that accounts for a fifth of all deaths in Europe

As Science|Business this month marks the 1000th issue of its newsletter, we republish our investigation into how and why the ERC lost its then-president in a 2020 fight over the agency’s mission. After an extensive search, molecular biologist Maria Leptin was named president in 2021. This article first appeared 29 October 2020.

Following Eric Lander’s resignation over accusations of workplace bullying, his joint roles are split between two temporary replacements, with ex-NIH head Francis Collins brought out of retirement to shore up science policy

Four members of the agency’s management are dismissed from office after they object when government blocks their choice of new director

As Antoine Petit begins his second term at the top of France’s biggest research organisation, he details an ambitious vision to strengthen French science

New round of €150K European Research Council proof of concept grant winners have no guarantee they will get the money – from either the EU or the UK government

As Science|Business celebrates the 1000th issue of its newsletter this month, we republish this story from October 2013 by Joanne O’Dea, who found out some Horizon 2020 draft work programmes were circulating among a select group of research institutes and universities before the European Commission had published them

Research can’t be ‘dissociated’ from politics, says Frédérique Vidal.  But a senior French scientist says  keeping the UK and Switzerland out ‘punishes all of us’