{"id":11099,"date":"2021-09-17T07:42:54","date_gmt":"2021-09-17T06:42:54","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.euchems.eu\/newsletters\/?p=11099"},"modified":"2021-09-17T07:43:19","modified_gmt":"2021-09-17T06:43:19","slug":"horizon-europe-budget-cut","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.euchems.eu\/newsletters\/horizon-europe-budget-cut\/","title":{"rendered":"MEPs against Horizon Europe budget cut"},"content":{"rendered":"<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><span data-contrast=\"none\">On 2 September 2021, the Members of the European Parliament of the Industry, Technology, Research and Energy (ITRE) committee gathered to <\/span><a href=\"https:\/\/www.europarl.europa.eu\/committees\/en\/presentation-of-the-draft-opinion-on-the\/product-details\/20210830CAN63063\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\"><span data-contrast=\"none\">discuss the 2022 general EU budget<\/span><\/a><span data-contrast=\"auto\">. Special focus was given to the budget cut of \u20ac316 million for the Horizon Europe programme proposed by the European Council last July.<\/span><span data-ccp-props=\"{&quot;201341983&quot;:0,&quot;335551550&quot;:6,&quot;335551620&quot;:6,&quot;335559740&quot;:276}\">\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><span data-contrast=\"auto\">On 15 July 2021, against all expectations, the European Council decided to reduce the budget for 2022 of the Horizon Europe programme by \u20ac316 million. At the same time, the instruments <\/span><a href=\"https:\/\/digital-strategy.ec.europa.eu\/en\/activities\/digital-programme\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\"><span data-contrast=\"none\">Digital Europe<\/span><\/a><span data-contrast=\"auto\"> (digital technology programme) and <\/span><a href=\"https:\/\/europa.eu\/investeu\/home_en\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\"><span data-contrast=\"none\">InvestEU<\/span><\/a><span data-contrast=\"auto\"> (facilitating investment programme) will also see their budget cut by \u20ac50 million and \u20ac45.5 million respectively. The main argument of the European Council was that there was not enough demand to invest in this domain.<\/span><span data-ccp-props=\"{&quot;201341983&quot;:0,&quot;335551550&quot;:6,&quot;335551620&quot;:6,&quot;335559740&quot;:276}\">\u00a0<\/span><span data-ccp-props=\"{&quot;201341983&quot;:0,&quot;335551550&quot;:6,&quot;335551620&quot;:6,&quot;335559740&quot;:276}\">\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><span data-contrast=\"auto\">The ITRE committee recently expressed its opinion on the topic and strongly disagreed with the budget cut proposal. To achieve the goals set for decarbonisation by 2030, research and development areas need these funds to establish a solid response.\u00a0<\/span><span data-ccp-props=\"{&quot;201341983&quot;:0,&quot;335551550&quot;:6,&quot;335551620&quot;:6,&quot;335559740&quot;:276}\">\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<blockquote>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><span data-contrast=\"auto\">\u201cAs expected, it is as counterproductive as it could be [&#8230;] while we are still in a pandemic, the Council cuts \u20ac45 million on health research under Horizon Europe [&#8230;] This completely undermines the idea that the recovery fund does additional money to boost recovery. It also is unrealistic if you are serious about the 2030 objective because those require investments now. It will be up to the Parliament to fight for a budget that delivers on recovery, resilience and the twin transition, digital and substantially.\u201d<\/span><span data-ccp-props=\"{&quot;201341983&quot;:0,&quot;335551550&quot;:6,&quot;335551620&quot;:6,&quot;335559740&quot;:276}\">\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<p style=\"text-align: right;\"><span data-contrast=\"auto\">&#8211; Christian EHLER<\/span><span data-ccp-props=\"{&quot;201341983&quot;:0,&quot;335551550&quot;:3,&quot;335551620&quot;:3,&quot;335559740&quot;:276}\"><br \/>\n<\/span><span data-contrast=\"auto\">Member of the ITRE Committee<\/span><span data-contrast=\"auto\"><br \/>\nSource: <\/span><a href=\"https:\/\/bit.ly\/3E3CBWz\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\"><span data-contrast=\"none\">https:\/\/bit.ly\/3E3CBWz<\/span><\/a><span data-contrast=\"auto\">\u00a0<\/span><span data-ccp-props=\"{&quot;201341983&quot;:0,&quot;335551550&quot;:3,&quot;335551620&quot;:3,&quot;335559740&quot;:276}\">\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>On 2 September 2021, the Members of the European Parliament of the Industry, Technology, Research and Energy (ITRE) committee gathered &hellip; <\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":10929,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_is_tweetstorm":false,"jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":true,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","enabled":false}}},"categories":[9,128,5],"tags":[],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v20.6 - 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