A meeting on the UK’s participation in European Union research programmes ended without progress, with the Westminster government signalling a shift towards domestic alternatives.
The meeting was triggered by the UK launching legal action against the EU over its exclusion from the Horizon Europe, Copernicus and Euratom programmes, promised to the country in the 2020 Brexit deal.
“At today’s meeting, the UK once again requested that the EU fulfil its obligation to finalise the UK’s association to EU Programmes after 16 months of delays. It is regrettable that the EU continues to decline this request,” the government said in a statement.
