Dependence of EU universities on external funding
They are more dependent alone due to the fact that the EU spends steadily increasing sums on research over the last decades. See the table on wikipedia.

FP9 or Horizon Europe will be around 100 billion, so another increase.

Also, just google "brexit universities britain eu funding alarm" to get some thousand articles/comments how dependent british universities are on EU funding.

Brexit Q&amp;As here