{"id":6853,"date":"2023-09-07T22:42:56","date_gmt":"2023-09-07T17:42:56","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.asiafreepress.com\/?p=6853"},"modified":"2023-09-07T22:42:58","modified_gmt":"2023-09-07T17:42:58","slug":"uk-rejoins-european-science-programme-after-post-brexit-row","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.asiafreepress.com\/en\/news\/uk-rejoins-european-science-programme-after-post-brexit-row\/","title":{"rendered":"UK rejoins European science programme after post-Brexit row"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong>Britain is to rejoin the Horizon Europe science research programme, Prime Minister Rishi Sunak&#8217;s office and the European Union said on Thursday, after UK scientists were frozen out in a post-Brexit row.<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Scientists welcomed the agreement as &#8220;a great day for researchers in the UK and across Europe&#8221; and a relief after two-and-a-half years of &#8220;uncertainty&#8221;, raising hopes among anti-Brexit campaigners of further closer collaboration with the EU.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>London had said it had been excluded from the scheme that funds research projects due to wrangling with Brussels over post-Brexit trading arrangements in Northern Ireland.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>But following a call on Wednesday, Sunak and EU Commission President Ursula von der Leyen announced that Britain was rejoining under what was billed as a &#8220;bespoke deal&#8221;.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Nobel laureate Paul Nurse, director of biomedical research centre at the Francis Crick Institute, said he was &#8220;thrilled to finally see that partnerships with EU scientists can continue&#8221;.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>The government said rejoining Horizon would give the country&#8217;s scientists &#8220;unrivalled opportunities&#8221; at a good price for British taxpayers.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>The EU estimates that the UK will contribute almost 2.6 billion euros (\u00a32.2 billion) per year on average to Horizon Europe and Copernicus satellite monitoring system, from January 1 next year.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>But it will not have to pay for the time it was locked out of the programme.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>&#8220;As part of the new deal negotiated over the last six months, the Prime Minister has secured improved financial terms of association to Horizon Europe that are right for the UK,&#8221; a statement said.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Von der Leyen said the EU and the UK were &#8220;key strategic partners and allies and today&#8217;s agreement proves that point&#8221;.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>&#8220;We will continue to be at the forefront of global science and research,&#8221; she added.<\/p>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Britain is to rejoin the Horizon Europe science research programme, Prime Minister Rishi Sunak&#8217;s office and the European Union said on Thursday, after UK scientists were frozen out in a post-Brexit row. Scientists welcomed the agreement as &#8220;a great day for researchers in the UK and across Europe&#8221; and a relief after two-and-a-half years of [&hellip;]<\/p>","protected":false},"author":15,"featured_media":6854,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[396,2,5,6],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-6853","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-latest","category-news","category-sciencetech","category-world"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.asiafreepress.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6853"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.asiafreepress.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.asiafreepress.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.asiafreepress.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/15"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.asiafreepress.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=6853"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.asiafreepress.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6853\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.asiafreepress.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/6854"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.asiafreepress.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=6853"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.asiafreepress.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=6853"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.asiafreepress.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=6853"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}