Last week, Ursula von der Leyen presented the guidelines for her second term as President of the European Commission. Science and technology play a prominent role in these. To ensure that the Green Deal succeeds and Europe can assert itself as a green economic power, von der Leyen proclaimed a new era of inventions and innovations. “Progress through technology” is the motto, which fits well with the EU setting of an economy-driven science that repairs nature at the same time. Great hopes are placed on biotechnology.
