A bleak Horizon

摘要

After much posturing and politicking, European leaders walked away from talks last week without a deal on the European budget for the rest of the decade. The breakdown casts into limbo a European Commission proposal to apportion around €80 billion (US$104 billion) to research over the period 2014-20 - a €29.5 billion rise on Europe's current seventh Framework programme. And it augurs trouble for research when the impasse is finally broken.