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It’s essential to increase EU research and innovation funding

Research and innovation are pre-requisites of economic growth and job creation. That’s why, in addition to increasing the budget of the next Framework programme, structural funds should be earmarked for R&D and Innovation, says Maria Da Graça Carvalho, MEP

It’s time to stop hitting the snooze button

The organisation of Europe’s do-or-die fuel cell collaboration has come in for (the same old) criticisms. How many more wake-up calls are needed before European R&D partnerships are made to run smoothly?

Let wind keep the lights on

Europe’s huge €194 billion investment in wind power over the past decade is starting to deliver a serious chunk of electricity. Now the industry needs consistency, says Christian Kjaer of the European Wind Energy Association

GM crops opt-out will make Europe a science museum

This week’s European Parliament vote to allow member states to ban cultivation of approved GM crops on environmental grounds undermines science-based decision-making system at an EU level, says Carel du Marchie Sarvaas of EuropaBio