Leading legislator Christian Ehler criticizes planning and budget for moonshot missions proposed by Commission - an idea not yet "changing the world".

In a paper setting out its negotiating terms, the government calls for a far reaching-science and innovation pact and says it will respect the remit of the European Court of Justice.

'Devil in the details' when US and European researchers try to work together under Horizon 2020.  When it comes to US-European relations, nothing is simple these days.

MEPs and research lobby groups say 100 billion EUR is good but not enough. Parliament ‘will fight’ for 120 billion EUR.

A Commission factsheet puts the R&I total at €114.8 billion from 2021-2027 – or just about 10 percent of the overall EU budget. But even that number leaves out many other research activities scattered around the Commission.

The European Commission outlined a €100 billion budget for its new research programme, running between 2021 and 2027. The figure includes €97.6 billion for Horizon Europe, that’s an increase of almost 30%.

Draft plans for the next EU research programme include lots of hot-button issues - from terrorism to healthcare inequality - that could attract broader political support.

On his last day in one of the most powerful research seats in Europe, Robert-Jan Smits talks about his legacy and the future.

Some see National Science Foundation move as latest retreat in US diplomacy under Trump administration – but agency says it will send more science envoys on visits abroad.

Birmingham Health Partners will lead one of six new sites across the UK created to address challenging healthcare issues through use of data science, funded by £30 million from Health Data Research UK.

The European Parliament wants to substantially increase research spending to at least €120 billion in the next seven-year EU budget cycle that comes into effect after 2021. The current €77 billion research programme, “cannot satisfy the very high demand”.  from applicants.

Commission aims to provide instant access to data stores across Europe, but some scientists worry about governance, control and costs.

Günther Oettinger says research should be the only programme spared spending cuts as the EU weighs how to make up for losing the UK’s €11B per annum contribution.

The European Commission plans to launch its open science cloud by 2020, but calls on universities to train more data scientists

Macron's promise to ring fence university funding did not last two months, says the National Union of Higher Education.

Don’t mention the B word: the first major reform of R&D funding since 1965 aims to make the UK the “go-to place” for science.

The Commission wants to knit existing data infrastructures into a shared pan European resource.

EU Research Commissioner Carlos Moedas praises scientists for finding their voice.

The days of open science have arrived and it is time to move from pay-to-read to free-to-read, says EU's R&D Commissioner. But publishers want to keep their subscriptions.

The EU Commission is canvassing views on whether the process of assessing research projects should be more open to public eyes.

Intense lobbying by scientists and journal publishing companies between now and the autumn is expected.

Business Key documents for Horizon 2020 are circulating on the Internet. The Commission needs to put order into the timely and fair distribution of this information.