The debate over the UK's long-delayed request to join the EU’s flagship research programme, post-Brexit, has seemingly been solved by a new UK-EU agreement.
European Commission president Ursula von der Leyen said work on associating the UK to the EU’s Horizon Europe research programme will start “immediately” once the wider deal between Brussels and London over the Northern Ireland protocol is implemented.
The deal, dubbed the 'Windsor Framework', was hailed as a “decisive breakthrough” in post-Brexit rules by UK prime minister Rishi Sunak.
Sunak said the agreement would open "a new chapter" in the UK's relations with the European Union, which have been frosty over the past year due to the row over the Northern Ireland Protocol.
The Windsor Framework is expected to remove trade barriers for Northern Ireland and give the UK a “veto” on EU law, with the goal of restoring powersharing in Stormont.
The deal was also presented as...