Brexit: UK may get poorer access than Israel to EU science scheme Exclusive: UK may have to pay more for privilege of collaborating, draft paper says. Theresa May’s appeal for a special Brexit deal 1 on science and research collaboration, worth billions to the British economy, is being stonewalled by Brussels as it prepares to offer an arrangement less privileged and more expensive than 2 that given to non-EU states such as Israel. The European commission’s negotiators refused to discuss the issue in formal talks last week, instead insisting they would present the UK with conditions of entry for a “third country” into its €97.9bn research programme 3 once they had been formally published. A draft copy of the so-called Horizon Europe document, seen by the Guardian, suggests that the UK is set to be offered 4 less generous access than countries with associate status in the current programme, known as Horizon 2020, including Israel, Turkey, Albania and Ukraine. ...
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