On March 26, President Obama met with European Council President Herman Van Rompuy and European Commission President José Manuel Barroso at the EU-U.S. Summit in Brussels to discuss the Transatlantic Trade and Investment Partnership (T-TIP) and Europe’s economic security with regard to recent events in Ukraine.

On March 20, the White House Office of Science and Technology Policy (OSTP) Director John Holdren issued a memorandum requiring that federal scientific agencies create a draft scientific-collections management and public access policy.

On March 19, the Extractive Industries Transparency Initiative (EITI) accepted the U.S. as a Candidate country to their global transparency standard for improving governance of natural resources.