Government enters endgame in Europe research stand off
The UK government has begun what may be its final effort to resolve a dispute over the UK's membership of the EU's €100bn Horizon research programme.
"The only thing that today's announcement does offer is a clearer path towards a pivot from the UK's Association to Horizon Europe, the outcome that the science community prefer, to Plan B, which is a hastily cobbled together set of alternative funding arrangements intended to be substitute for some, but by no means all, of what's being lost," he said.
Liz Truss, who is competing with former UK chancellor Rishi Sunak to be Britain's next prime minister, said that the EU was in "clear breach" of its agreement to allow participation in several scientific programmes, including Horizon Europe. "Our newly anointed PM can then say that they've 'tried everything but the intransigent EU won't budge,'" he said.
Other affected schemes include the nuclear research programme Euratom, and services including Space Surveillance and Tracking. "Instead of continuing the pattern of starting rows with the EU to appeal to their Tory base, the next prime minister should sit down with all parties to ease the tensions and find agreement in the national interest," he said.
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