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The Swedish crown rose on Thursday against the euro after Sweden’s central bank hiked its benchmark interest rate by 50 basis points as expected. In the meantime, the euro flattened against most peers, remaining close to a fresh 2015-low versus the Swiss franc and near a two-week low against the U.S. dollar, amid safe-haven demand ...

We already have technologies at our disposal for carbon capture and storage, but the current solutions are too expensive for large-scale use. There is a need to streamline the technologies so that they become economically viable and thus useable on a

European universities and governments are toughening up their approach to collaboration with China in dual use technologies after it was revealed that thousands of papers have been co-authored over the last two decades with the Chinese military. Joint work on drones, AI, positioning systems and other potentially war-related research that is helping China create the world’s most technologically advanced military grew dramatically in volume up until 2019.

The European Commission has suspended payments to Russian institutions involved in EU-funded research and innovation projects. “I have asked my services to suspend any payment to Russian entities under existing contracts,” EU commissioner for research and innovation Mariya Gabriel said in a statement on Wednesday. In addition, the EU will not launch any new cooperation projects with Russian universities, research institutes and companies.