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Europe News
Sorting through euro trash:What proposals has the Commission scrapped?
Euronews went dumpster diving—not literally, don’t worry—through the EU Commission’s discarded legislation to see what’s been scrapped as outdated, stale, or just plain unworkable. Somebody had to do it, and here’s what we found.
Business
European Commission fines MS drug maker Teva over improper patent use
The European Commission says it has fined the Israeli generic drug maker, Teva, more than €460m for improperly seeking to protect the patent for its multiple sclerosis drug and for disparaging a rival company's development of a competing medicine.
Europe in Motion
Which European universities file the most patent applications?
A new study shows a growing contribution of universities to the continent's innovation ecosystem but laments the bloc's fragmentation is crippling the ability to turn high-level scientific research into economic competitiveness.
Earth News
Belgium makes last-ditch bid for deal on GMO deregulation
Belgium is looking to break a deadlock among EU governments over a proposed easing of regulation for GMO crops produced using the latest gene editing techniques, by addressing concerns over the patenting of novel seed varieties by agribusinesses.
Earth News
MEPs back GMO deregulation while governments divided over patenting
The European Parliament has narrowly agreed to ease restrictions for crops developed using new genome editing techniques, but a German federal agency warns there is no scientific basis, and EU countries have yet to agree a position amid a row over whether the new class of GMOs should be patentable.
