CERN Council Budapest meeting
Following more than two years of intense work of the European particle physics community under the auspices of the European Strategy Group, the CERN Council met in Budapest, Hungary, on May 22 2026 to update the European Strategy for Particle Physics.
The Council decided to set the ESPPU recommendations as the scientific vision of the particle physics community in Europe:
“It’s gratifying to see that a very broad consensus has emerged that the electron-positron Future Circular Collider (FCC) is the best machine for the future of CERN and particle physics at large. And it’s equally heartening to see the great support by all the country delegations for the next frontier in particle physics”
Writes Paris Sphicas, head of the European Committee for Future Accelerators (ECFA)
Alain Blondel comments, in an article published by the CERN Courier shortly after the vote:
The community has spoken: the electron–positron Future Circular Collider (FCC-ee) is the preferred next flagship project for CERN. As an initiator of the concept of a circular Higgs factory in 2011, I was elated by this outcome. But it also made me wonder: why did it take so long? To answer this, we need to travel back 50 years.
Read the rest of the article “The FCC, half a century on” in the CERN Courier
On the same topic:
- 2026-02-26 Seminar: Towards a Future Flagship Collider at CERN. Recording of the CERN Colloquium on the European Strategy for Particle Physics, by Prof. Karl Jakobs. https://indico.cern.ch/event/1650119/
Press release: The CERN Council decided to update the European Strategy for Particle Physics