Decryption – At the Sorbonne, the president of the European Commission and the French president announced 500 and 100 million euros to bring scientists affected by budget cuts to the United States.
The misfortunes of some … The difficulties of American researchers in the face of the Trump administration, which asked the Congress of brutal cuts of several tens of billions of dollars in the budget of federal research, will they make the happiness of France and Europe? This is in any case what seemed to hope on Monday morning at the Sorbonne, the president of the European Commission, Ursula von der Leyen, and President Emmanuel Macron during the conference “Choose Europe for Science”. Both have largely insisted to make Europe a refuge of academic freedoms, the President of the Republic concluding his speech with a solemn “Call of the Sorbonne which is aimed at all free minds”.
Before that, he had recalled that “No one could think that this great democracy in the world, whose economic model is so strongly based on free science, was going to make such an error”before adding that, over the last three …
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