‘Outrageous!’ Macron and VDL shamed for ‘weaponising’ £80bn scheme as UK takes EU to court

But the bloc told Britain it cannot take part in the programmes until the Northern Ireland dispute gets smoothed over, despite this having nothing to do with these science projects.

Now, the UK is taking the EU to court and is launching “formal proceedings” for – in Foreign Secretary Liz Truss’ view – violating the TCA.

And former Science Minister George Freeman, who had been drafting a bold “Plan B” to prepare for the event that the UK was not let back into the £80billion Horizon programme, appears to agree.

He told Express.co.uk: “Boris Johnson specifically negotiated our membership of Horizon, Copernicus and Euratom as part of our Brexit deal in 2019. It is outrageous that nearly three years on we are still blocked by the EU.

Article source: https://www.express.co.uk/news/science/1663311/macron-von-der-leyen-weaponising-eu-george-freeman-brexit-northern-ireland-protocol