The European Research Ministers met in Santander on Friday 28 July for an informal meeting organised by the Spanish Presidency of the Council of the EU. Diana Morant Ripoll, Spain’s Acting Minister for Science and Innovation, pointed out that the issues discussed at the meeting directly concerned three pillars of the Spanish Presidency of the Council of the EU’s research and innovation (R&I) programme: the reindustrialisation of Europe, European strategic autonomy and the transition to...