LONDON (AP) — Britain is rejoining the European Union’s $100 billion science-sharing program Horizon Europe, the two sides announced Thursday, more than two years after the country's membership became a casualty of Brexit.
British scientists expressed relief at the decision, the latest sign of thawing relations between the EU and its former member nation.
Britain is also rejoining Copernicus, the EU space program’s Earth observation component.
Relations between Britain and the bloc were severely tested during the long divorce negotiations that followed Britain’s 2016 vote to leave the EU.
British scientists, who feared Brexit would hurt international research collaboration, breathed sighs of relief at the Horizon deal.
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