Britain is issuing a new appeal to Brussels to end the delay in granting access to EU scientific research as agreed in the post-Brexit trade deal. Britain's Europe Minister Leo Docherty is to say that in continuing to deny access to research programmes such as Horizon, the EU is failing to fulfil its side of the agreement.
In an address to British and European parliamentarians at Westminster, he is due to emphasise that both sides will profit from co-operating on shared issues such as climate change, global health and energy security. According to advance extracts of his address Docherty will say: “The UK’s participation would be a clear win-win for the UK and the EU, but the UK cannot wait much longer; the EU’s approach is causing intolerable uncertainty for our research and business communities.”
Despite differences over the implementation of the Northern Ireland Protocol dominating the recent dialogue between London and Brussels, his comments underline the tension that remains on other issues too.
