‘Tough fight’ ends in last-minute cash injection for Horizon Europe

But billions more for R&D still leaves budget below original hopes of sector and MEPs

Negotiators for the European Parliament and Council of the EU have agreed to add billions of euros to the budgets of the EU’s research and academic mobility programmes.

But the last-minute move has left some research experts dejected, as the vastly higher budgets initially touted for the programmes failed to materialise.