FARM subsidies in Northern Ireland could halve by 2030 due to Brexit, an industry expert has warned. / Farmers will have to do more for less funding due to changes envisaged under any scenario short of Remain, a consultant from the Andersons Centre said.

DON'T lock the Highlands and Islands out of a £4.8 billion post-Brexit investment pot, the UK Government has been urged.

The Sustainable Europe Investment Plan also details plans for a Just Transition Mechanism to support those regions facing a particularly far-reaching transformation.

Two different programmes since 1999 have brought nearly £800 million to dozens of projects.

After six years of fraught negotiations, it looks increasingly likely that UK researchers will lose access to European Union research funding because of Brexit.

Among other devastating repercussions, crashing out will cause a hostile climate between the UK and EU, which would strongly serve to repel European and global scientists from our shores.

Concerns have been raised by a mental health charity operating in the local area that future activities may be cut as their £2m funding from the European Social Fund (ESF) will end in 2023 as a result of Brexit.

The UK government needs to "get a move on" in developing the system to replace EU funds in Wales after Brexit, according to a former Welsh secretary.

At the last general election, all of you stood on a platform of “getting Brexit done”. / Voters were told in your party’s manifesto that this would “unleash the potential of our whole country” and “transform the UK for the better”.

RUMOURS that surfaced this week over the watering-down or scrapping of farm payments that rewards landowners for their environmental work has stoked anger amongst the Cumbrian farming community.

A new government scheme was meant to replace EU structural funds lost after Britain left. But critics say it delivers less money and will do little to bolster the Tories’ levelling up agenda.

A SCOTTISH business has revealed how it missed out on a whopping £50,000 worth of EU funding due to Brexit.

Bloc declares solidarity with protests against Lukashenko’s grip on power as it vows to press ahead with sanctions.

The Chancellor and Prime Minister need a plan to counter figures showing lower growth after the hit to EU trade.

Nobel prize winner warns UK science will suffer unless it can gain access to Horizon Europe. / One of Britain’s leading researchers has warned of a “major blow” to national science if ministers cannot secure access to a massive research programme that is being drawn up by the EU.

The Commission has approved the disbursement of more than €2 billion under the Brexit Adjustment Reserve to a group of 12 Member States. This decision will make available a total of €819.2 million by the end of March 2022 and the rest by April 2023.

A farm part-owned by the former Vote Leave boss, now a top aide to Boris Johnson, received thousands in EU handouts. / A farm part-owned by Boris Johnson’s Brexit adviser Dominic Cummings received £235,000 in EU funding despite him attacking subsidies as “absurd,” it has been revealed.

Arts missing out on tens of millions from expanded EU fund, say campaigners.

Oxford and Cambridge universities, once given more than £130m a year in total by European research programmes, are now getting £1m annually between them.

Was the United Kingdom’s move to exit the European Union (EU) via BREXIT a bad move for biomedical research? According to a prominent academic investigator from the Imperial College of London, the move cost 2.5 million Euros ($2.52m USD) in research grants.

EU money used to create jobs and boost local growth will run out in December 2020

Funds for regional projects dry up at the end of 2020 but Treasury yet to offer alternative.

Agriculture, Environment and Rural Affairs (AERA) Committee chairperson, Declan McAleer MLA, used the recent Stormont debate on the budget to highlight his belief that Brexit has driven a ‘wrecking ball’ through agriculture and rural affairs in Northern Ireland.

UK scientists had been shut out of the multibillion-euro scheme amid drawn-out Brexit negotiations.

Researchers in the UK were overwhelmingly opposed to Brexit. Now, new estimates of lost funding show these concerns were justified, says the Scientists for EU campaign.

Dr Mike Galsworthy said: "Brexit uncertainty over five years has knocked the UK’s position down several rungs and blown a huge hole in our funds and networks."

Boris Johnson aide, a strident critic of Brussels, is accused of hypocrisy over payments.

Senior pro-vice-chancellor Andy Neely has said the University’s lost association with an EU science research programme is having negative impacts.

The UK Government has confirmed that it will withdraw from Euratom. But what does Euratom actually do? And what will happen when the UK leaves?

Brexit poses a real risk to the health of children in the UK, with concerns over recruiting specialist doctors and access to research funding, according to a new report.

The closure of Wrexham’s Business Hub was due to the impacts of Brexit, First Minister Mark Drakeford has said. ‌​‌​‌​​​‍‌​‌​​‌‌‌‍‌​‌‌​​‌​‍‌​‌‌‌​‌‌‍‌​‌‌‌‌​​

Island ministers 'yet to see any firm proposals' on UK replacement funding.

Mr Drakeford, who is stepping down next month after five years as First Minister, said Brexit had left Wales a billion pounds worse off and cut off from the rest of the world.

"I don’t think the Government has any intention to give us pound for pound what we had,” Council leader Graeme Miller said.

Your weekly update from the Brexit ‘downside bunker’, chronicling the downsides, and occasional upsides, of Brexit.

About 1,000 university research jobs are at risk unless the UK government urgently replaces European Union funding, bosses have warned.

This article looks at the Government’s commitments to replace EU development funding in Wales, which has ceased because of Brexit. An oral question on the subject is due to be asked in the House of Lords on 3 March 2021.

The warning comes after a Glasgow-based, world-leading cancer expert said he was considering moving a major research project abroad because of a Brexit-linked impasse over EU funding.

The British Overseas Territories, while largely unknown to the British public, will be affected enormously by Brexit.

One of the most contentious parts of the torturous post-Brexit trade negotiations between the UK and Europe was the dispute-resolution process. Now it’s being tested.

Talks over the Horizon Europe funding programme have been stalled until other Brexit-related disagreements are resolved.

Pro-Remain parties in Northern Ireland criticise ‘petty’ decision by UK government.

Scientists have warned the UK’s prominence in the world research field is at risk of “brain drain” after concerns for EU research funding will be dropped post-Brexit.

"The European Union budget is primarily an investment budget. Representing around 2% of all EU public spending, it aims to complement national budgets. Its purpose is to implement the priorities that all EU members have agreed upon. It provides European added-value by supporting actions which ... can be more effective than actions taken at national, regional or local level."

South Yorkshire to lose £900m and Tees Valley and Durham £750m, Michael Gove told – despite pledge to ‘match’ EU funds

UK Government urged to set out how much money will be made available to Scotland as part of Shared Prosperity Fund.

When Boris Johnson agreed the Brexit divorce package with the EU, he promised it would unleash innovation, turning Britain into an agile “science superpower”. But rather than boost UK science and technology, Brexit has – so far – damaged it,

Home Office ministers have been criticised for not spending millions of pounds of EU funding to help tackle problems areas such as food deprivation, homelessness and child poverty.

Ireland is to receive a total of €920.4m from the Brexit Adjustment Reserve, after the European Commission adopted the decision to allocate the funding.

There were some concerns raised with SDLP councillor Rory Farrell and Sinn Féin councillor Conor Heaney laying the blame for the loss of European funding firmly on Brexit.

A Welsh Conservative has told the Senedd that the new UK subsidy control regime is taking so long to navigate that it’s having a detrimental impact on a business in his constituency.

An ex-UK Government Tory minister has admitted the Welsh were deliberately misled about how replacement money for former EU funds would be spent in Wales. Wales used to receive a huge amount of money from the EU before Brexit.

Cornish towns are concerned that post-Brexit funding will mean far less money for redevelopment projects. Projects such as the redevelopment of a 120-year-old pier in Falmouth harbour look likely to to be abandoned as the details of the UK Shared Prosperity Fund slowly emerge.

The Conservatives have broken their promise to match EU funding at £100 million a year, providing just £43 million.

Cornwall is set to get less than half the amount of money it was expected to get from the EU before Brexit.

Cornwall may only get a maximum of £3million of cash from the Government to directly replace the £100m it could have been eligible for if the UK had remained in the EU, it has been claimed.

Conservative councillors say EU base is ‘waste of taxpayer money’.

Wales is not too poor to be an independent nation. The ex-first minister of Wales believes so anyway, though others are less sure. So, how would Wales fare economically if it had to go it alone in a post-Brexit world?

EU legislators reached an agreement on Thursday on the 5 billion euro Brexit Adjustment Reserve, paving the way for a first payment by December.

AN organisation helping women access jobs and education in the north-west has said it is "devastated" after a failure by the British government to fully replace EU funding forced it to cut six of its staff.

Incoming PM tells parliament he will ‘bring back billions of euros’ of EU funds, as MPs prepare to confirm his candidacy.

PROPOSALS by Edwin Poots' department for post-Brexit support for agriculture could threaten the livelihood of hundreds of small farmers, according to the chair a Stormont committee.

The European Commission has made a decision to allocate more than two billion euros from the Brexit adaptation reserve to 12 member states, of which Estonia stands to receive altogether 5.2 million euros to mitigate the negative effects of the withdrawal of the UK from the European Union.

The European Council on Tuesday approved a 5 billion-euro ($5.8 billion) reserve aimed at helping EU businesses tackle the short-term effects of Brexit.

A 20 million euro scheme to support the Irish aquaculture sector affected by Brexit has been approved by the European Commission under EU State aid rules.

Information on how the EU budget works: where the money comes from and how it is spent, a breakdown of spending and revenue by programme and by country, and the EU's focus on performance-based budgeting. Links to publications, documents, and news related to the EU budget.

"In 2017, the European Union focused on making the economic recovery sustainable. Growth rates for the EU and the euro area beat expectations to reach a 10-year high of 2.4 %. Nevertheless, the EU had to tackle a series of challenges related to competitiveness, migration or security, and address some major natural disasters."

More than 100 grants previously approved for applicants in Britain have been scrapped amid a continuing dispute over the UK’s refusal to fully implement trade arrangements made when the country left the European Union.

Move would allow members to draw on emergency fund for floods, fires and earthquakes.

An EU fund, which was ended due to Brexit, provided "wide-ranging support" to marginalised people, a report has found.

A delayed multi-million pound bypass project partly paid for by EU funds has been hit by rising costs due to Brexit and the pandemic, councillors in Gwynedd have been told.

The UK may have officially left the European Union in 2020 but Brexit is still making headlines. / And for some community organisations in Northern Ireland, it has left them in funding limbo.

The most vulnerable people in society will suffer if community services lose funding at the end of March, organisations have warned. / Money from the European Social Fund (ESF) is due to stop on 31 March as a result of Brexit.

Community organisations in Northern Ireland have put 400 workers on notice of redundancy due to a lack of funding.

Organisations who help people with disabilities to work warned as far back as 2019 there was a "lack of detail" about what would replace EU funding.

Northern Ireland's five main political parties have sent a joint letter to the UK government urging it to fully replace EU funds which were lost after Brexit.

EU agriculture commissioner Phil Hogan ‘satisfied’ Brussels can provide aid in ‘any exceptional circumstances’.

The European Commission is drawing up a multibillion-pound aid package for Ireland to offset the economic damage of a no-deal Brexit, The Times understands.

Brexit Secretary had warned Ireland would suffer more than UK.

In total, European Commission has pledged €232M to help contain coronavirus outbreak, as Italy becomes an infection hotspot.

The need for the UK to join a €95bn EU science research programme is a top priority for Cambridge University, the BBC has been told.

Members of the European Parliament are expected to approve a grant of tens of millions of pounds, to help UK areas stricken by flooding.

With three months to go before the UK could leave the European Union (EU), farmers say they still face uncertainty about future subsidy levels. / "We could be wiped out like the coal industry."

The European Union will allocate a total of €5 billion until 2025 to all countries and companies that have been affected by the UK’s withdrawal agreement, the European Parliament has confirmed through a statement.

European Commission’s next seven-year science-funding scheme — its biggest ever — will allow any country to participate for a price.

Brussels also plans 'Just Transition Mechanism' to regenerate coal mining and oil regions after transition.

Government’s new fund should at least equal EU’s near £2bn, Industrial Communities Alliance says.

Scientific leaders have urged the government not to abandon talks to enable the UK to participate in a €100bn European research programme.

Proactive, cosmopolitan and open, the European Union is filling a leadership void on the global stage, argue James Wilsdon and Sarah de Rijcke.

Everything from travel to air quality has been looked at in order to create ‘a growth that gives back’

The European Parliament gave its formal stamp of approval to the EU’s next big research programme, Horizon Europe – moving forward legislation for it and calling for a €120 billion budget, a 27.5 per cent increase on the €94.1 billion proposed by the European Commission

Oxford and Cambridge now receive only £1m from European research programmes between them. Previously, the top UK universities received over £130m a year from European research programmes.

Both Blair and Marc spoke at an event held by East Belfast Mission to highlight the risks to groups which help disadvantaged, vulnerable and disabled people if European Social Funding is not replaced soon.

All EU Member States make contributions to and receive funding from the European Union budget. This process is governed by an agreement called the Multi-annual Financial Framework (MFF). The current framework covers seven years, from 2014 to 2020.

As Brexit drags on we look at where all the billions of pounds Cornwall has received from the EU has gone

Carole Cadwalladr digs into one of the most perplexing events in recent times: the UK's super-close 2016 vote to leave the European Union. Tracking the result to a barrage of misleading Facebook ads targeted at vulnerable Brexit swing voters -- and linking the same players and tactics to the 2016 US presidential election -- Cadwalladr calls out the "gods of Silicon Valley" ...

The government hasn't yet decided on a new scheme, and many in the rural communities are concerned a 'funding gap' will appear.

Scottish farmers could lose £170m by 2025, with Welsh and Northern Irish ministers also critical of new regime.

Farmers have called on the government to clarify what post-EU support they will receive to improve the environment, six years after the Brexit vote.

CAMPAIGNERS have raised concerns the UK Government’s plans for replacing European funding will fail to deliver for Scotland’s rural and island communities.

Businesses across the EU who have been affected by Brexit will receive a new round of funding worth €2 billion over the next year, the European Commission has announced.

The First Minister has said famers in Wales would be in a “very different position” if they hadn’t taken the advice of Andrew RT Davies and voted for Brexit.

Months after the Christmas floods, the European Commission has yet to assess a UK bid for aid to help repair the damage to homes and businesses. A Commission spokesman told the BBC it was still waiting for information from the British government.

As the economic harm that it has done becomes ever clearer, all but the most die-hard Tory Brexiteers are increasingly prepared to admit that Brexit was a mistake. Trade with the Europe has slumped, productivity is down, and there are 4,000 fewer European doctors working in the NHS.

The Fund for European Aid to the Most Deprived (FEAD) supports EU countries' actions to provide food and/or basic material assistance to the most deprived.

Cornwall Council had been allowed to bid for £3m from the Community Renewal Fund but has been given just over £1m and there are fears that the Shared Prosperity Fund will not have enough to replace Cornwall's EU funding.

The Westminster Government is set to make a funding announcement on Friday for Northern Ireland charities and community organisations facing a financial crisis. / At the end of this month, money from the European Social Fund (ESF) comes to an end due to Brexit.

The Home Office ... informed us that all the refugee integration services we fund via an EU grant programme would be cut immediately in the event of a no-deal Brexit.

GROUPS helping some of Northern Ireland’s most vulnerable people will not know if their bids for new British Government funding have been approved until just days before their European Union funding runs out.

A catalogue of errors by the Home Office has led to a loss of access to £600,000 of EU funds earmarked for the most deprived people in Britain and has put a further £2.9m at risk, it can be revealed.

One of Scotland’s top cancer experts is considering moving a major research project abroad amid political turmoil and warnings that a Brexit-linked impasse over EU funding will starve universities of talent.

Universities have seen research funds plummet since Britain left Horizon, which offers huge grants to science projects tackling big issues like climate change.

British and French housing associations trained residents to start their own business through the Increase Valorisation Sociale but its future is uncertain after the loss of EU funding.

A €5 billion EU fund will support people, companies and countries affected by the UK's withdrawal from the Union.

Homelessness is already rising and experts fear a hard Brexit could severely impact those who depend on social welfare.

HUNDREDS of staff tasked with improving vulnerable people's employment prospects are to be laid off at the end of next month due to a funding shortage triggered by Brexit.

The government has told business support providers to wind up hundreds of schemes used by thousands of companies that are still funded by the European Union, despite concerns over delays to UK-funded replacements.

Post-Brexit alternatives to European funding for research and innovation must match previous sums. Without this vital cash, our universities will suffer a terrible blow, writes Paul Boyle.

England’s second most populous city was revived by EU money but voted to leave the bloc, in a pattern that has become all too familiar, says Patrick Cockburn.

The political decision to leave the European Union has had the unintended consequence that the UK may not be able to access funding from Horizon Europe, the EU’s highly regarded principal funding programme for research and innovation, and the involvement of UK-based researchers in European research consortia has already been damaged by this.

Grants given through the government’s Shared Prosperity Fund were supposed to match EU cash previously handed out to UK regions for development. In reality, the north is £1.65 billion down.

Ireland has said it will demand hundreds of millions of euros from Brussels if there is a no-deal Brexit, amid growing fears Britain is set to crash out of the European Union without an agreement. / Ireland is likely to be hit particularly hard by a no-deal outcome, with the country’s farming industry heavily reliant on trade with the UK.

The Government has secured more than half a billion euro in grants from the European Commission to connect Ireland's electricity network to France.

The Republic of Ireland is to receive €920m (£782m) from a European Commission fund which is designed to "mitigate the impact of Brexit".

But ensuring Irish interests are part of any final Brexit trade deal ‘will not be easy’.

UK farming is facing an uncertain future, with the end of EU subsidies due to Brexit, followed by the impact of covid and lockdown.

A year on from leaving the EU, it’s time for an annual report on how Brexit has worked out for Wales.

Up to 1,700 jobs are at risk over the failure to replace EU funds that were lost after Brexit, a consortium of community groups have said.

Irish contributions will increase if UK leaves union but benefits are worth the cost.

Boris Johnson’s days as prime minister may be finally numbered but the damage his government has done will live on, not least in the scientific community where over 100 prestigious EU grants have been withdrawn as the row over the Northern Ireland Protocol poisons relations.

Scientific collaboration has become a casualty of Switzerland’s and the United Kingdom’s tussles with the European Union.

The Vice-Chancellor says failure to secure associate membership of Horizon Europe could do long term damage to UK universities.

An organisation that carries out repairs and maintains paths across the Lake District National Park faces an uncertain future due to declining funding.

Despite promises from chancellor Rishi Sunak to match the money it received from the European Union, Cornwall will receive just £1 million compared to the £100 million it used to get.

A review of evidence about opportunities, challenges and risks to the North East economy and its key sectors with recommendations for action.

Almost seven years on from the Brexit referendum, there remains uncertainty over the future UK-EU relationship. Reflecting on the lessons from the last seven years, Neil Kinnock argues there remains a clear case for the UK being an economic, political, social, scientific and cultural part of the Europe of the future.

ALMOST 30 organisations across the Newry Mourne and Down Council area are to lose key European Union funding at the end of March.

Four international scientists explain how a grant debacle stemming from Brexit has affected their research and career plans. / UK science suffered a significant setback in June, when the European Research Council (ERC) confirmed that 143 UK-based researchers would forfeit their prestigious ERC grants unless they relocated to a country in the European Union.

Malta is to receive €35 million over three years to help cover the impact of Brexit on its economy, the EU Commission announced on Monday.

New Tory MPs have promised to transform the region, but its greatest threat will come in days, when Britain leaves the EU.

Marine projects in Co Cork will benefit from a rise in funding of €6,032,337, with the single greatest overall investment being €1,779,138 going toward dredging work in Ballycotton Harbour.

Vote sets up post-Brexit budget clash with countries accused of damaging democratic values.

MEPs have voted in favour of the €5 billion Brexit Adjustment Reserve – with €1 billion coming Ireland’s way.

Steve Rotheram, Liverpool City Region Mayor, has stood by a claim Merseyside would lose more than £10.2m in funding after Brexit, telling the government “we will not accept crumbs off the table.”

Figures show hundreds of millions of pounds from promised £2.4bn a year on agriculture not spent. / This money was to replace the EU’s common agricultural policy, which paid farmers for each hectare of land they managed.

The European Commission has proposed using emergency funds normally reserved for natural disasters and to offset the harsh effects of globalisation in order to help countries badly hit by a no-deal Brexit.

Whitehall is to bypass the devolved administrations and replace European structural funds with a centrally-controlled fund.

Plans for a new law giving the UK government more powers to spend in Wales will be published on Wednesday.

Ministers have promised on several occasions that Wales will not lose out due to Brexit.

Universities say vital projects are ‘days from stalling’ as EU grants could be lost.

Nobel scientists warn Britain will lose ‘superpower’ status if access barred to €100bn EU fund

Sector bodies warn of immediate hit to funding, touring and networks.

People in the North of England are at risk of losing out on £300m for regional economic development after Brexit, new analysis has warned.

POST Brexit, people in the north of England are at risk of losing out on £300m for regional economic development, double the average cut per head as the rest of England.

MULTI-MILLION cuts to regional funding intended to level up the country will have “catastrophic consequences” on the local economy, it has been warned.

North Wales' tidal energy industry has received a £12.6m European Union boost.

Northern Ireland is losing out on tens of millions of pounds with the end of funding which had previously come from the EU, the finance minister has said.

Oxfordshire reactor has been described as ‘shining example of scientific cooperation between EU members’.

“We were sold a lie by Westminster,” he said in a break in bidding at the market, one of Europe’s largest, but operating at less than one quarter capacity when The National visited.

Scotland’s finance secretary, finally, received a response from the UK government regarding replacement funding, lost due to the UK’s exit from the EU.

As departure day approaches, chief of top UK lab says he fears science will drop off the government’s agenda.

A poll of 1,000 people carried out by Beaufort Research found that most wanted the Welsh Government to have full or shared responsibility for dispensing the replacement for EU funds.

Analysis suggests London and the South East stand to benefit from repatriation of regeneration cash from Brussels. / The UK’s poorest regions could lose hundreds of millions of pounds of funding to London and the South East after Brexit, an analysis had found.

The leader of Swansea Council has raised concerns about the funding which will replace the hundreds of millions of pounds Wales used to receive from the European Union each year.

Doncaster Council has approved funding from a flagship government levelling up scheme, but Mayor Ros Jones says the amount is “tiny” compared to previous EU resources.

‘Red Wall’ and other poor parts of England will lose as much as £1 billion of development cash this year because of Brexit, dashing Boris Johnson’s pledge to “level up” Britain.

Norfolk and Suffolk is receiving about 20pc less of the funding it used to get each year from the European Union, an analysis has revealed.

Hundreds of researchers and organisations across Europe have called for the rapid association of the UK and Switzerland to Horizon Europe.

Rishi Sunak's Spring Statement has failed to offer Yorkshire the same guarantee previously provided to Cornwall on the Government's flagship post-Brexit regional funding programme.

Ben Houchen says the area will get more cash but Northern Powerhouse Partnership director Henri Murison says the mayor is 'double-counting' unspent EU cash

Walkers and climbers have picked Dundee to highlight a campaign to save Scotland’s hill paths after Brexit put an end to EU funding for trail maintenance.

This week is five years since the vote to leave the European Union. New analysis from Scientists for EU shows that since then UK grants on the Horizon programme have steadily plummeted.

THE SNP have accused the Conservative government of “shafting” Scotland as it emerged the European Union has awarded Ireland almost €1 billion (£850m) for compensation for Brexit, while Scotland has been given just £172 million from a UK fund set up to succeed a major Brussels scheme.

THE Scottish Government has warned the nation could be set to miss out on hundreds of millions of pounds if the UK Government breaks its promise to match EU funding post-Brexit.

Welsh Assembly also seeking reassurance over future cash flow and pensions.

SCOTLAND has received around £14 million less under the UK Government’s post- Brexit student exchange programme compared to the EU’s Erasmus+ scheme.

SCOTLAND is losing millions in funding as a result of Brexit, a Scottish Government minister has said.

SNP ministers have clashed with their counterparts in London in a row over Levelling Up and a £300 million shortfall. / Richard Lochhead said the post-Brexit Shared Prosperity Fund (SPF) would deliver just £212m to projects north of the border over the next three years.

Sir Martin shared his insight on what challenges the Government is facing, what the Government and business should do now and how the UK seeks to forge new trading relationships outside of the European Union.

As small businesses crumble, shelves get emptier and the care-worker shortage intensifies, life outside the EU is having a dire effect on many of us. Why aren’t politicians talking about it?

Stoke-on-Trent City Council wants the ERDF cash for the Grants for Growth programme, which helps local firms expand.

The heads of two Stormont departments have described the delivery of British government funds that are designed to replace EU money after Brexit as "fragmented" and a "highly sub-optimal way to serve the people of Northern Ireland".

Increases in university fees of almost 60 per cent are be considered by the Department for the Economy.

Sunak boasts of the UK as a leader in technology. He does not remind us that Brexit eroded our position.

In rejecting EU funding programmes, Britain has jeopardised research and made itself far less attractive to overseas scientists.

Seven years since the referendum, how have the “promises” made by the most prominent Brexiteers panned out? Here’s a rundown of the 10 most spectacular untruths.

The Brexit effect is easy to see in UK universities. A continuing failure to agree UK association with the Horizon Europe research programme has put eligibility to conduct EU-funded research in the UK in a precarious position, undermining international collaborations and prompting some academics to relocate to the mainland.

The European Union’s (EU) Chips Act was agreed in principle at the end of April 2023 by the EU’s main political bodies. The proposed legislation, described by European Commission President, Ursula von der Leyen, as a “game changer”, commits €43 billion in financial subsidies towards expanding the bloc’s semiconductor industry.

Wales and Scotland say they are missing out on hundreds of millions in funding from not being part of the EU.

Failure to replace funding previously provided by the European Union’s Social Fund with money from the UK’s Levelling Up Fund has put more than 1,700 jobs in jeopardy in Northern Ireland, a conglomerate of community groups has warned.

Following the UK's departure from the EU, the route is due to run out of money by the end of August.

The prime minister’s Brexit policy is sacrificing the UK’s science reputation – and billions of pounds in EU grants.

The Vice-Chancellors of the universities of Swansea, Bangor and Cardiff, and the Pro Vice-Chancellor of Aberystwyth, will be appearing before the Welsh Affairs Committee to answer questions ranging from the loss of EU structural funds for research to their recovery post-pandemic.

THE devolved nations and English regions have accused the Tory government of breaching yet another manifesto pledge after it failed to match EU funds lost to Brexit.

Account named 'Stuart Anderson MP' deleted potentially damning sections from site.

Wales and the south west and north east of England will be biggest losers, it calculates - with funds diverted to wealthy London and the south east. / The poorest areas of Britain will lose billions of pounds in public spending after Brexit under government plans, a study is warning – while the richest areas gain.

Mark Drakeford says during Dublin visit that his country has not found itself to be better off after leaving the EU.

Some 250,000 Britons live in 14 territories, with many reporting fear and confusion as the Brexit deadline nears.

More than two years after Brexit, British fishermen are angry. They were promised more control over fishing rights in British waters, but what they’ve gotten is reduced income. Many of them voted Leave, but now they feel they’ve been let down.

'We have very few pots of money open to us. The EU has stepped up to try to address this void and we are worried that Brexit will take us backwards'

Wyn Evans’ family has owned a plot in western Wales for generations, a bucolic expanse where 370 sheep and 80 cows feast on the verdant grasses of undulating hillsides.

Research is at risk due to a "significant brain drain" as the industry's brightest talents relocate overseas in the wake of Brexit. / A total of 22 UK-based scientists have now decided to leave Britain rather than lose their EU research funding, as uncertainty continues around the future of Research and Development (R&D) support post-Brexit.

A post-Brexit British fund for regional development will fall £1 billion short of what the U.K. received from the EU, MPs warned.

Ministers from across the devolved regions have jointly criticised the UK Government for their approach to allocating previous EU funding.

A Welsh farming union say yesterday’s Budget broke a Conservative manifesto and Brexit campaign promise not to cut rural funding.

As obvious as it is to see the decline in the number of clinical trials in the UK, the reasons behind this trend are as complicated to ascertain. Fiona Maini, Principal - Global Compliance and Strategy at Medidata Solutions, thinks the issue is multifaced with Brexit playing a part in this.

The UK Government is set to break its promises to match the funding nations and regions of the UK received before Brexit, Whitehall sources have warned.

Major infrastructure projects could be 'hurt' if the government fails to 'plug the funding gap'

Britain will pay £60 million to keep the Joint European Torus near Oxford running if negotiations to continue EU funding stall.

UK minister for science and research George Freeman has admitted that vital EU funding for research is in limbo while the nation continues to negotiate Brexit sticking points, namely Northern Ireland and fishing rights.

The European Union (EU) has confirmed it is holding back the UK’s access to the £81bn ‘Horizon Europe’ programme as a response to Boris Johnson’s plans to tear up the Northern Ireland protocol.

The UK’s scientists have missed out on £1.5 billion in Horizon 2020 funds since the country voted to leave the EU in 2016. Campaigners say that the figures reveal the extent to which Brexit uncertainty damaged collaborations between UK researchers and their colleagues across Europe.

The warning came as university leaders called on MPs to ensure research funding was not lost

Vice-chancellors, fearing a loss of research money and students post Brexit, are on an EU charm offensive.

"Brexit has definitely affected us for going to Tahiti (the largest island in French Polynesia) because we're no longer in the European Union," she told AFP.

Levelling-up promise broken by government. / The UK government's replacement for the EU's regional development funding leaves regions billions of pounds worse off, devolved administrations have said.

Rothamsted Research is having to pause ‘non-essential’ work, according to a letter from its director.

Celtic Routes due to run out of money at the end of August. / "As a direct result of Brexit, there will be no continuation of the Ireland Wales Cooperation Fund." / "Celtic Routes has been one of the most successful Projects that has ever crossed my desk."

“I am really uncertain about what will happen,” said one language student who is unsure whether her year abroad will go ahead.

Vaughan Gething claims Wales will be £1bn worse over the next three years, after the UK Government announced a package to replace funding previously allocated by the European Union, before Brexit.

A 22 per cent rise in support would have been due in the next EU budget.

Wales is being hardest hit by the post Brexit loss of EU Structural Funds, latest figures have shown.

THE Welsh Government has accused the Tories of “levelling down” their nation after the UK Government confirmed it will receive less than one-seventh of the funding it would have gotten from the EU.

Welsh university bosses travel to Westminster on Wednesday to tell MPs that replacement European funding post-Brexit needs an "imaginative approach".

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WALES’ climate minister has accused the UK Government of treachery as the row continues over how the country’s EU funding will be replaced.

The Welsh Government says the Shared Prosperity Fund is a broken promise because it means Wales will get hundreds of millions of pounds less than it received from the EU.

Economy Minister Vaughan Gething has accused the UK Government of losing Wales millions of pounds and thousands of job opportunities through mismanagement of its own post-Brexit regional aid programme.

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When the British electorate voted in 2016 to leave the EU, it was already clear that the implications for UK social sciences and humanities researchers were likely to be greater than for other disciplines.

'Beyond their individual preferences, the researchers offered gloom when asked about Brexit's effect on science. A total of 78% said departure from the EU would be harmful, with more than 50% saying it would be "very harmful". Only 9% saw any benefit from departure from the EU.'

Areas like South Yorkshire will see a cut in the amount of economic development support they receive in the coming years even if the Government matches the funding they were getting from the European Union before Brexit, academics have claimed.

Farmers in North Yorkshire have applied to convert four sheds into business units to make up for a loss of income due to the end of European Union subsidies.

MEPs approved the €5 billion Brexit Adjustment Reserve to help member states deal with the economic, social and territorial impact of the UK’s departure from the EU.

Stormont coffers are more than £100m short as a direct result of Brexit, according to Finance Minister Conor Murphy.

More than £1bn of EU structural funds have been invested in schemes across Wales, Finance Secretary Mark Drakeford today confirmed.

A Sheffield MP is demanding the Government replaces £605m of EU cash earmarked for South Yorkshire after Brexit.

Scotland’s Rural Economy Secretary has criticised the UK Government for increasing uncertainty over funding for farmers and crofters.

A Leeds City Council report published last week suggested some of its 120 staff directly funded by European grants could be at risk of redundancy, when the UK loses access to the cash next year.

Paul Newberry is a consultant aerospace engineer and he’s saddened by Brexit and the loss of opportunity and restriction of freedom it brings to people young and old ... including his son who followed him into the business). It’s bad news for the UK’s future scientists, engineers and innovative industries as a whole.