The UK seeks access to the EU’s €5B tech scale-up fund.

Pieter Haeck   Politico.eu4 May 2026
The EU and the UK will start talks on British access to a new €5 billion fund that wants to provide late-stage funding to tech companies.

Both sides have agreed to “commence negotiations,” European Commission President Ursula von der Leyen and UK Prime Minister Keir Starmer said Monday following a meeting at the European Political Community summit in Armenia.