Negotiations for wider R&I cooperation “now on pause for the foreseeable future”, says CommissionResearch cooperation between the EU and China has been limited to “basic research in targeted areas”, a European Commission spokesperson has told Research Professional News. In response to a query from RPN, the spokesperson said the Commission had decided in December last year to “freeze the negotiations”, launched in 2019, on a joint roadmap for EU-China cooperation on science, technology and innovation.