http://www.sciencemag.org/news/2018/06/european-research-lobbyists-question-allocation-growing-pot-next-horizon-program

Research commissioner Carlos Moedas promised “radical change” to EU innovation policies yesterday at a press conference in Brussels.

European universities are unhappy about the details, announced yesterday, of Horizon Europe, the European Union’s new 7-year research program that will start in 2021. They say the 22% increase in funding overall proposed by the European Commission is the bare minimum and worry that the program shortchanges basic research in favor of innovation funding. “We will fight for a better distribution of the budget,” says Kurt Deketelaere, secretary-general of the League of European Research Universities (LERU) in Leuven, Belgium.