Brits negotiate draft deal to rejoin EU's $100B blockbuster science programme
UK government has agreed a draft deal to rejoin the EU's €95.5 billion Horizon research funding program, following years of uncertainty resulting from the Brexit vote.
According to reports, officials from the UK and the world's richest trading bloc have roughed out an agreement which is set to be presented to British prime minister Rishi Sunak at the weekend. Next Tuesday he is due to meet Ursula von der Leyen, president of the European Commission, the EU's executive branch, when the agreement may be finalized.
UK scientists have long complained that Horizon membership was an unintended, but devastating, effect of Brexit and one which cast doubt over the island nation's plans to become a global science superpower. In February, science minister Michelle Donelanthe UK was ready to go it alone if negotiations to form an associated membership with Horizon failed.
"If we cannot associate, we are more than ready to go it alone with our own global-facing alternative, working with science powerhouses such as the US, Switzerland and Japan to deliver international science collaborations,"
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