A no-deal Brexit would cause severe disruption across the UK’s culture, science and design sectors, industry leaders have said. The expected loss of EU funding and uncertainty over the status of EU nationals after March 2019 meant UK museums were already losing scientists, researchers and curators, and there was a shortage of archaeologists, they said. “In the last six months, we’ve seen UK cultural organisations increasingly excluded from EU funding initiatives in anticipation of Brexit,” Donoghue said. “No-deal also puts the legal systems that museums use to lend and borrow cultural objects across the EU at risk. “That’s in anticipation of the effect on visa requirements, on queues and the impact on the economy.”

Source: The Guardian September 22, 2018 09:33 UTC