Top Scientists Push for Closer UK-EU Ties in Brexit Talks

• Radhakrishna N S
• 20 September, 2018

By: Radhakrishna N S

India born Nobel Prize winner Venkatraman (Venki) Ramakrishnan has called for a “sensible” post-Brexit immigration system to ensure that mobility of scientists is maintained when Britain leaves the European Union (EU) next year. Prof Venki, as he is popularly known, is the president of the Royal Society and is among Britain’s key advocates for science. He warned that Britain is in danger of losing its position as a leading scientific hub in the event of a no-deal or bad-deal as the UK negotiates its future ties with the EU. “We in the Royal Society and the rest of the scientific…

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