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Commission report: EU needs EUR 560 billion more R&D investment to hit 2030 target

The Commission's 2026 Science, Research and Innovation Performance report finds the EU needs EUR 560 billion more to hit 3 percent of GDP on R&D by 2030. It urges a European Research Area Act and a European Innovation Act.

Verified AI-drafted European Commission press release, 1 October 2026

What it does not test. It does not show that the EUR 560 billion gap will be closed or that the proposed Acts will be adopted.

How this item counts. No movement: no answer to who owns, who operates, whose law governs or who made the parts changes. Weight 0. report quantifies EU-wide R&D gap and urges future Acts, nothing adopted or funded. European Sovereignty Index

How this item was made. Drafted by an AI system (Claude (Anthropic)) from the source cited above and published under the editor’s responsibility without a person reading it first. How the record is made

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