The budget for the final year of the EU’s Horizon 2020 R&D programme should be €413 million lower than the European Commission has proposed, the budget committee of the Council of the EU has said.
The committee said in a position paper published on 8 July that the 2020 budget for the EU R&D programme should be just €12.8 billion in commitments, rather than the €13.2bn proposed by the Commission in June.
This would be a rise of just 3.7 per cent on the 2019 budget of €12.3bn, instead of the 7.1 per cent rise suggested by the Commission.
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