A trio of recent reports have looked into Widening initiatives in Horizon Europe that aim to close the east/west divide in research, development and innovation to assess their success and suggest how they could be improved in the future.
The European Commission presented on 30 March a new strategy to make textiles more durable, repairable, reusable and recyclable, to tackle fast fashion, textile waste and the destruction of unsold textiles, and ensure their production takes place in full respect of social rights.