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Research commissioner Mariya Gabriel announces new push to coordinate with national policies and help EU13 countries boost their R&D performance

EU research chief spells out the frustrations of an ‘unbalanced relationship’

Politicians accuse manufacturers of lack of transparency over multi-million deals with Brussels, and raise concerns over exemptions from legal action in case vaccines go wrong

The European Commission is working on plan to give the regions more sway in research and innovation, and better access to the results

The scope of Horizon Europe research missions became clearer, as mission boards handed over their final recommendations at the EU Research and Innovation Days meeting. Next comes haggling over the budgets in time for the launch in 2021  

170 technologies show how serendipity can be systematised in scientific breakthroughs by applying four mechanisms

Possibility of more funding now hangs on member states’ agreeing to let EU raise €200B from new levies and allocating some to Horizon Europe and other strategic programmes whose budgets have been cut

Researchers say that severe cuts will reduce opportunities for the career development of early-career scientists throughout Europe

US biomedical research body has seen its role grow during the pandemic but has found itself in dispute with the US president. ‘Trump was forced on BARDA, not the other way around’, says one observer