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An artist's impression of how the sensors of a driverless car could scan the environment, to illustrate Darpa's 'Lifelong Learning Machines' programme (Photo: DARPA)

EU shelves Macron idea for 'European Darpa'

Europe will not have a pan-European innovation agency comparable to the US Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency (Darpa), as proposed by French president Emmanuel Macron last year.

"I think that the approach that we want is a little bit different," said EU commissioner for research and innovation Carlos Moedas, at a press conference in Brussels on Wednesday (25 April).

He presented the European Commission's

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An artist's impression of how the sensors of a driverless car could scan the environment, to illustrate Darpa's 'Lifelong Learning Machines' programme (Photo: DARPA)

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