Unlike the Île-de-France region, chaired by Valérie Pécresse, the government is not going to suspend its subsidy to Sciences Po Paris after a tense pro-Gaza mobilization.
The State “will not cut its subsidy” to Sciences Po Paris, declared Tuesday April 30 the Minister of Higher Education, Sylvie Retailleau, the day after the announcement of the “suspension” of funding for the Île-de-France region. -France.
“We have a contract of objectives and means of performance currently under discussion, we have leverage to discuss with Sciences Po”, but “the State will not cut the subsidy to Sciences Po”, said Sylvie Retailleau on France 2, estimating state funding for Sciences Po Paris at 75 million euros.
“No anti-Semitic remarks”
Valérie Pécresse, LR president of the Ile-de-France region, announced Monday evening the “suspension” of funding from the region (i.e. one million euros) to this establishment, after the blockages and mobilizations, sometimes punctuated by tensions, within Sciences Po in recent days, in support of the Palestinians.
Asked about the suspension of disciplinary procedures announced Friday by management against students involved in these actions, the Minister of Higher Education repeated that it only concerned one sanction, “linked to the invasion of the staircase leading to (the offices of) the management”.
There were then “no anti-Semitic remarks” and “no violence” was committed, she added. “There will never be a question of a sanction linked to anti-Semitic remarks being lifted,” said Sylvie Retailleau. And “there will be no suspension of collaboration with universities in Israel,” she further declared, referring to one of the activists’ demands.
