Countries in line for EU membership would face same treatment as all others outside the EU and - as things stand - no preferential terms are on offer to the UK post-Brexit

As UK Parliament debates Brexit plan, researchers around Europe ponder a few key questions that would affect their work 

Richard Lochhead says Brexit will leave Scotland ‘in a much worse situation than where we started’

Draft text of UK-EU agreement was approved by May’s Cabinet  – but for research and innovation the impact will be reduced by special provisions

The legal text of a Brexit deal has been agreed between the EU and the UK, and accepted by Theresa May's Cabinet. Here is a summary of the bigger picture in EU-UK relations for research and innovation 

All parties in the negotiations on the UK’s departure from the EU must now strive to ensure that as little harm as possible is done to research, say 29 Nobel prize winners in letter to May and Juncker

Government seeks fallback option, with UK looking set to lose access to key elements of EU satellite system post-Brexit

European budget chief estimates there’s now a 50-50 chance of agreeing a budget before the May 2019 parliamentary election. Without certainty of future funding, researchers will go elsewhere, he claims

Government note says crashing out with no deal could mean the UK loses access to European Research Council grants, Marie Sklodowska-Curie Actions and the SME instrument