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Well it isn't that we wouldn't want to participate but the EU is connecting our Horizon participation with other topics that have nothing to do with it. So I do
by bacchus123 3y ago
Well it isn't that we wouldn't want to participate but the EU is connecting our Horizon participation with other topics that have nothing to do with it. So I don't really see us rejoining it anytime soon.
- atemerev 3y agoAs a small country, Switzerland will not be able to finance its world-class scientific infrastructure independently. It is a catastrophe. International cooperation is crucial in science.
- bacchus123 3y agoWrong. We paid as much as we got from the program. The collaboration between scientist from across Europe was the more important thing. Sadly science got politicized.
- Longhanks 3y agoAbsolutely agree. It is a disgrace how the EU tries to blackmail smaller countries. Imagine if Switzerland prohibited all EU scientists from accessing CERN.
- sealeck 3y agoSwitzerland is a pretty rich country, and spends roughly 22bn CHF per year on R&D (about half that of France with around 1/8th of the population). Swiss universities are also a _lot_ better than their continetal European counterparts.