It was a rare thing at the Council to see almost all the member states at the Competitiveness Council on Friday 28 September unanimously speak against the proposal to introduce a dual legal basis as part of the specific programme for implementing the Horizon Europe research and innovation framework programme.
As pointed out by the Commissioner for Research, Carlos Moedas, in his introduction, the decision to expand the legal basis to article 173 of the Treaty on the Functioning of the...