‘It’s about the respect’: Science|Business reconstructs how disputes over the demand for equal pay for researchers from poorer EU13 countries played out in negotiations over the planned €94.1 billion R&D programme
Geochemist Douglas Connelly tells Science|Business how his project hopes to prove sub-sea carbon sequestration is a safe and effective tool for tackling global warming
He’s spent five years as vice chairman of the European Parliament’s ITRE committee, overseeing Horizon 2020, but as he bows out, retiring MEP Hans-Olaf Henkel, tells Science|Business why he doesn’t believe in the R&D programme
A €1.7 billion microelectronics project – and a big battery project in development – are first of a new crop of industrial partnerships. Vestager offers guidelines for EU clearance
In a final interview as European Patients Forum secretary general, Nicola Bedlington says the EU needs a ‘home for health’ in the European Commission, and patients should be at the centre of designing new health research initiatives
Rolf Tarrach, in a long-shot bid for the European Parliament, wants to transform the debate around science and evidence in Europe. ‘Society has got used to believing things that are wrong,’ he tells Science|Business
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