Back page gossip from the 28 October issue of Research Europe
On the front line
In our previous issue, this column reported on how the EU’s research and innovation commissioner, Mariya Gabriel, made a trip to Switzerland amid tensions over the country being frozen out of talks to associate to the bloc’s R&D programme, Horizon Europe. We speculated as to whether some Swiss research leaders may have taken the opportunity to whisper in her ear about the importance of association to R&D ties between the two.