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“Financially, the project was a deficit project for Britain,” Johnson told a news conference Thursday afternoon after the Brexit deal was announced.
He also announced that the UK will instead launch a separate international study program named after the mathematician Alan Turing. Details will be presented in the next few days.
“Students will have the opportunity to study not only in European universities, but also in universities around the world,” the prime minister said, referring to the Turing program.
Turing was best known for breaking the enigma code of Nazi Germany, a play that was filmed in 2014 in “The Imitation Game.”
In 2017, 16,500 British students carried out an exchange in Europe through Erasmus, while 31,727 European students went to the United Kingdom, according to figures from the Erasmus program.
The end of British participation in Erasmus has received harsh criticism from the Scottish Prime Minister, Nicola Sturgeon.
– Ending Britain’s participation in Erasmus, a program that has broadened the opportunities and horizons of so many young people, is cultural vandalism. tweeted his.
He also stressed that he totally disagreed with Britain’s withdrawal from the EU.
– It’s time for us to map our own future as an independent European nation, he wrote on Twitter when the Brexit deal was announced.
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