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Many countries on continent have not repaired cuts made during financial crisis, despite economic growth

Robert-Jan Smits takes Plan S to the White House and says he is in the United States for ‘business not chit-chat’.

A better-tasting tomato highlights problems with Europe’s outdated approach to gene editing.

Key findings from European agencies, government authority reports, and local NGO surveys.

Scientists warn the devil is in detail of the European Commission’s latest open access plan, while publishers argue prohibiting researchers from submitting their work to certain journals is a threat to academic freedom.

In this Perspective, a group of national funders, joined by the European Commission and the European Research Council, announce plans to make Open Access publishing mandatory for recipients of their agencies' research funding.

Swiss participation in some of the EU’s largest and most prestigious funding programmes is being threatened by rules proposed for 2021-27.

A formal complaint to the European Commission Ombudsman regarding the relationship between Elsevier and the Open Science Monitor.

The story so far regarding the opinion piece in The Guardian expressing deep concerns with Elsevier as the sole contractor for the new European Commission Open Science Monitor.

The European country’s autocratic government has made a disturbing grab at the nation’s scientific institutions.

There appears to be no realistic path forward that achieves Europe's 2020 open access targets without resulting in substantial revenue reductions for existing publishers. Will Europe miss its OA target? Or will publishers miss their revenue targets?

After decades of keeping a low profile in the military arena, the European Union is flexing its muscles.  Proposed European Defence Fund would spend EUR13 billion on R&D.

The United Kingdom wants a part in European science programmes after Brexit, but the European Union could put a high price on it.

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%.

Overall, the most elite ranks of Europe’s Most Innovative Universities have held steady from last year. The list was compiled in partnership with Clarivate Analytics, and is based on proprietary data and analysis of patent filings and research paper citations.

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.

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

The plan for the EU’s next research Framework programme will be presented at the end of May, according to the European Commission’s incoming R&D chief Jean-Eric Paquet.

13 European associations of universities release a statement in which they call upon the EU institutions to double the investment in research, innovation and education, in the next Multi-Annual Financial Framework.

Despite some progress, researchers are still reluctant to switch journals because of fears it could hinder their careers.

The European Commission (EC) is currently working on an implementation plan and a roadmap for the European Open Science Cloud (EOSC), which should then be adopted on 28 May. EOSC should offer 1.7 million European researchers and 70 million professionals in science and technology a virtual environment with open seamless services for storage, management, analysis and re-use of research data, across borders and scientific disciplines.

Science Europe and the Netherlands Organisation for Scientific Research have launched an initiative for the voluntary international alignment of research data management policies.

Spending on research projects on blockchain technologies by the European Union is to jump after it announced plans to increase funding from €83 million to as much as €340 million by 2020.

Some experts say the US decision to repeal net neutrality rules could open the floodgates to a multi-speed internet in Europe.

Schiltz takes over the presidency from Michael Matlosz, who was President of the organisation from 2015 to 2017.

A broad TDM Exception is important for everyone (not just researchers), would boost Europe’s economy and doesn’t mean that publishers would lose money.