Nature editorial calls for British voters to support EU membership
DOI: 10.1063/PT.5.029902
Nature : On 23 June the UK will vote on whether to remain in the European Union (EU). If it votes to leave, the UK will lose significant access to scientific research funding, opportunities for collaboration, and unique research facilities. Nature‘s editors argue that the benefits gained by membership in the EU greatly outweigh any concerns over diminished sovereignty. The EU will spend more than €120 billion ($135 billion) on research and innovation between 2014 and 2020, with €13 billion going to the highly successful European Research Council, which provides grants to researchers throughout the EU. In an earlier Nature survey, a large majority of UK researchers supported remaining in the EU.
