Brexit: £3bn standoff over UK-EU scientific collaboration

Sector calls for compromise to ensure UK researchers stay in Horizon Europe

The UK's post-Brexit collaboration with European scientists hangs in the balance after it emerged that the EU offer of staying in the Horizon research programme could leave London with a 3bn deficit.

The financial negotiations are not in a good position and the offer that the [European] commission has made to the UK is not appealing," Vivienne Stern, the director of Universities UK International, told a Lords Brexit committee on Thursday.