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Widening newsletter 26: Portugal must maintain access to Widening measures in the next framework programme

Hungary and its prime minister Viktor Orbán have been on the minds of MEPs who in the past week have spoken about the rights and wrongs of the EU freezing much needed funds to the country, including blocking 21 universities from receiving Erasmus+ and Horizon Europe funds. We delve into the debate in this week’s newsletter. Elsewhere, the vice rector for research at Portugal’s University of Minho says that despite its increasing success in winning EU research funding, the country must maintain access to Widening measures in FP10; a Polish researcher sounds the alarm over growing mistrust in science; and Bulgarian prime minister Nikolay Denkov tells a Davos panel that Europe needs to learn to accept failure to increase its innovation performance.

25 Jan 2024