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The European Commission is about to publish the full Horizon Europe Annotated Grant Agreement (AGA) this month, after several years of delay. “The (re)publication of a fully-fledged corporate AGA is imminent,” a Commission spokeswoman told Science|Business, confirming it is expected this month.
The Spanish presidency has proposed shaving as much as €5.3 billion off Horizon Europe to finance skyrocketing EU recovery fund interest rates, according to a leaked proposal seen by Science|Business. The proposal, sent to the member states last week, outlines three scenarios for cutting EU funding for 2025 - 2027, including one that suggests a cut as high as 13.5%. According to the document, EU ambassadors discussed the document at a Coreper meeting on 23 November.
EU ministers want to establish a dedicated knowledge exchange platform to help tighten security against technology espionage across the bloc. “Joint EU action is desperately needed here. We need to establish an EU playing field on knowledge security and foreign interference with a shared view on both the risks and opportunities,” said Dutch research minister Robbert Dijkgraaf. “It’s one of our top challenges and will remain with us for a long time.”
Six Hungarian universities hit with an EU ban on accessing Horizon Europe and Erasmus+ funds could have a case, according to a leading expert on Hungarian constitutional law commenting after the universities lodged appeals to the Court of Justice of the European Union (CJEU), claiming the move is unreasonable, disproportionate and lacks solid factual basis.
Politicians’ recent marshalling of public institutions for geopolitical, economic and societal ends has narrowed their room to manoeuvre, according to EUA’s autonomy scorecard