Higher Education and academic research

European researchers can perhaps be thankful for one thing about last week's European Union budget negotiations: The participants were unable to strike a deal. That may only delay bad news, however. The latest proposals for the innovation budget, which includes research and education funding, cut as much as 15% from the €164 billion proposed last year by the European Commission, the E.U. executive branch. And E.U. research leaders aren't optimistic they'll do much better by the time budget negotiations actually end, which may now be next year. (...) - ScienceInsider, by Gretchen Vogel on 26 November 2012