Blow to the UK as European Medicines Agency prepares to leave

[sasguru]

you do your analysis by just looking at the Name & guessing - oh tulip

explains a lot about the NHS

DKUATB.

[vetran]

DKUATB.

oh we already know that you do that, I just thought it needed repeating

[PurpleGorilla]

Is it?

https://phys.org/news/2016-09-brexit...ope-space.html

The MauveMonkey is partly right. But ...

""As soon as it (Britain) is leaving the EU it is not participating in these programmes any longer," said Bruston.

Furthermore, UK-based companies hold contracts worth tens of millions of euros from ESA to supply hardware for Copernicus as well as the Galileo satnav system, a rival to America's GPS.

"If nothing changes (and Brexit goes ahead), we would have to stop these contracts," said Bruston.


Read more at: https://phys.org/news/2016-09-brexit...space.html#jCp

So we pay our obligations but have to stop participation to exiting contracts?

I doubt that...

[sasguru]

So we pay our obligations but have to stop participation to exiting contracts?

I doubt that...

What you doubt has no bearing on the matter ...

[vetran]

So we pay our obligations but have to stop participation to exiting contracts?

I doubt that...

its a divorce you leave the crazy ex but you get to still pay for the house yet they don't let you live there.

#EUtheCrazyEX

[PurpleGorilla]

What you doubt has no bearing on the matter ...

True, there is no logic or fairness to the EUs approach to Brexit beyond 'stuff the Brits!'

[sasguru]

Well the aerospace industry could also suffer:

https://www.ft.com/content/dff73c1c-...5-9e5580d6e5fb

[PurpleGorilla]

its a divorce you leave the crazy ex but you get to still pay for the house yet they don't let you live there.

#EUtheCrazyEX

Give me the car

- yes, but the car is in my name

My god you are so unreasonable

- ok here are the keys

What you won't pay for it now?

- well um, I don't own it any more

You are so bloody unreasonable!

[sasguru]

To be fair, though, the collapse of manufacturing post Brexit was clearly seen by some Brexiters.
No doubt some Brexiters voted for Brexit because they saw manufacturing as outdated and unneccesary:

MPs react after Vote Leave economist admits Brexit would 'mostly eliminate manufacturing' - Chronicle Live

"Over time, if we left the EU, it seems likely that we would mostly eliminate manufacturing, leaving mainly industries such as design, marketing and hi-tech. But this shouldn’t scare us."

[NotAllThere]

So what do Switzerland do?

Swissmedic works with the EMA. European Medicines Agency - Regulators outside the EU - Switzerland