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The Guardian - UK
The Guardian - UK
World
Lisa O'Carroll, Kiran Stacey and Ian Sample

EXPLAINED: Uk to return to eu s flagship horizon science research programme - The Real Truth

Gloved hands holding a slide on a microscope
Before Brexit the UK was one of the top beneficiaries of Horizon. Photograph: Zoonar GmbH/Alamy

Britain is to rejoin the EU’s flagship £85bn science research programme, Horizon Europe, in a long-anticipated deal welcomed by scientists.

Britain’s membership of Horizon, which funds research projects tackling crucial issues from the climate crisis to terminal diseases and improving food and energy security, was agreed as part of the post-Brexit trade deal in 2020. But it was never ratified in a tit-for-tat row between the EU and the UK over Northern Ireland Brexit arrangements.

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