Neutrino Factory R&D In Europe

Until last year the CERN Neutrino Factory Working Group has been quite active together with other European laboratories. The sudden discovery of the bad financial situation at CERN due to the LHC construction put an abrupt halt to these studies. Lots of CERN activities were cut back to allow for the finishing of LHC in time and without any significant global increase in CERN’s budget. Nevertheless with a new organisation and several committees and working groups, activity on a European scale is still going on. This paper describes the actual situation and some European ideas in the different areas which may turn out to be very relevant in the future.