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Marie Skłodowska-Curie Actions and European Innovation Council also face cuts to 2025 budgets
The European Research Council, which is the EU’s flagship funder of basic research, would lose more than €73 million from its proposed 2025 budget under cuts sought by the Council of the EU member state governments.
On 15 July, the Council’s budget committee revealed that it wants Horizon Europe, the EU research and innovation programme that includes the ERC, to have a 2025 budget of €12.3 billion, which would be €400m less than the European Commission proposed earlier this year.