Around 10% of the UK’s research budget comes from the EU so the Commission has huge power over our universities. Juncker is an EU establishment figure who believes in further integration. He has recently called for the creation of an EU army and wants to cut the research budget. Last year he sacked the EU’s Chief Scientific Adviser Anne Glover because her scientific advice supporting GM crops conflicted with powerful vested interests. Expect him to prominently feature in a future EU referendum and for better or for worse, mustn’t be ignored.
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Jean Claude Juncker
Around 10% of the UK’s research budget comes from the EU so the Commission has huge power over our universities. Juncker is an EU establishment figure who believes in further integration. He has recently called for the creation of an EU army and wants to cut the research budget. Last year he sacked the EU’s … Continued
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