The European Union and Western Balkan countries have endorsed a declaration to step up cooperation in research and innovation, reaffirming shared commitment to the region’s path towards EU membership.
The EU imported some €534.1 billion worth of high-tech products in 2025 and exported €566.5 billion, resulting in a trade surplus of €32.4 billion, according to Eurostat.
More than 700 researchers will be able to build their careers in Europe thanks to an additional boost of over €210 million to the EU’s Marie Skłodowska-Curie Actions programme -…
The EU Commission is to allocate an additional €500 million to the EU’s Horizon Europe research programme for 2026 and 2027, reaching a total total budget of around €14.8 billion for the two years.
The EU Commission has set out its plan for a new European Innovation Act to help Europe’s most innovative ideas be developed, financed and scaled up in Europe.
The European Commission has completed final legal steps to establish the EU’s Scaleup Europe Fund, ready to start boosting Europe’s scale-up companies to grow faster and compete globally with a target of €5 billion.
The EU and national authorities began enforcing the Artificial Intelligence Act on 2 August, as well as new transparency rules requiring certain AI systems to tell users when they are interacting with AI and when content has been generated or altered by it.
