European Commission

More than 100 grants previously approved for applicants in Britain have been scrapped amid a continuing dispute over the UK’s refusal to fully implement trade arrangements made when the country left the European Union.

Mauro Ferrari says the organization’s response to the COVID-19 pandemic is inadequate, but ERC members claim his proposals didn’t align with the mission of the council.

The plan to revitalize the European innovation landscape is entering a transition.

A funder-driven push for freely accessible scholarly literature has divided the scientific community.

Nearly three dozen Nobel laureates and Fields Medal winners sign a letter to the UK Prime Minister and the President of the European Commission.

The plan would also allow non-EU countries to pay to participate in EU research programs, albeit without wielding “decisional power.”

The budget is smaller than what some researchers hoped for, and too high for at least one EU member state.

The pesticides, which studies show are harmful to bees, will be prohibited in open fields by the end of 2018.

Fotis Kafatos, a Greek researcher famous for his work on malaria, has died at age 77.

The proposed criteria for seeking out the chemicals were criticized by a number of groups, including scientific societies and environmental advocates.

Newly published research on the key ingredient in the Monsanto-made weed killer is holding up lawmakers’ decisions on whether to continue to allow its sale in Europe.

The European Commission names seven scientists to top science policy–advising positions. 

The European Commission has agreed to add three years of funding to the Human Brain Project, which has had its detractors since launching in 2013.

The European Commission unveils a plan to install a team of science advisors to guide policymakers.

After weathering serious criticism last year, the European Commission–backed effort to map the brain’s neural connections must reform or die, a review panel says.

Researchers in Europe are universally dismayed over the decision to eliminate the European Commission’s Chief Scientific Advisor role.

Officials behind the European brain mapping effort take preliminary steps to tackle concerns voiced about the project.

More than 250 European researchers sign a letter criticizing the European Commission’s $1.6 billion effort to create a computer simulation of the human brain.

The European Commission is set to approve a new strain of genetically modified maize despite opposition from member nations.