On Monday, 11 March, the Belgian Presidency of the Council of the European Union sent Member State delegations a second set of draft conclusions on the ex-post evaluation of the European framework programme for research for the 2014–2020 period, Horizon 2020, and on the future outlook for these framework programmes.
This evaluation, which was positive overall, had been published by the European Commission on 29 January (see EUROPE B13338A6). In the wake of this report, the Belgian...