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The European Commission has scraped a key piece of Green Deal legislation following political shifts within the European Parliament. The move came after Italy, governed by a far-right administration of Georgia Meloni, aligned itself with the European People’s Party (EPP) on the matter.

Only three weeks to go until Europe’s largest event for laboratory automation and drug screening. SLAS Europe 2025, organised by the Society for Laboratory Automation and Screening (SLAS), will take place in Hamburg from 20-22 May. In a series, European Biotechnology Magazine presents the 12 most innovative SMEs today: Phabioc GmbH.

With a 7.7% lead, the incoming Christian Democrat Chancellor Friedrich Merz has put the radical right-wing AfD in its place. Before forming a government in Germany, Merz emphasised that Germany wants to strengthen the EU’s self-sufficiency, although the role of biotechnology seems to be of secondary importance to him.

At the end of February, 200 German clinical trial experts gathered in Frankfurt/Main to discuss with representatives of the German Ministry of Health, how to implement model contract clauses into a law that speeds up clinical trials and translational medicine in Germany. According Model contract clauses have been established before by stakeholders from Deutsche Hochschulmedizin, das KKS-Netzwerk, die Pharmaverbände vfa und BPI sowie der CRO-Verband BVMA. © BVMA

With a new law, the German government wants to increase the number of clinical trials conducted in Germany and make the country number one in Europe again.

Janusz Wojciechowski, European Commissioner for Agriculture from Poland, and David Clarinval, Belgian Minister of Agriculture at the AGRI Council in November 2023 © UE

After the EU Parliament’s Agriculture (AGRI) Committee called for a patent ban on NGT-1 breeds on 8 January, the ENVI Committee will give its input to the EU Commissions draft law on new genomic techniques.

Spanish outgoing Agriculture Minister Luis Planas presenting the results of the Agriculture on Monday evening. © CE

At the EU Council (10-11 December), agriculture ministers did not reach the qualified majority required to adopt the adapted version of the EU Commission’s draft regulation on new genomic techniques.

Hamburg-based single-cell protein specialist MicroHarvest GmbH last week opened a pilot-scale production plant in Lisbon, Portugal. © MicroHarvest GmbH

The Budget Committee of the German Bundestag has announced to channel €38m in funding into the sustainable protein transition next year.