As a Trump, Europe is a trump to attract scientists

Since the US government supports research institutions and threatens universities such as Harvard and Columbia with freezing federal funds, the European leaders hope to benefit from what they call American “mistakes” and a “gigantic misjudgment”.

“Nobody could imagine a few years ago that one of the great democracies in the world would eliminate research programs to pretend that the word” diversity “appeared in his program,” said President Emmanuel Macron from France on Monday.

He spoke at Sorbonne University in Paris during an event called Europe for Science organized by the French government and the European Union.

It was unthinkable, said Macron and also alluded to the withdrawal of the researcher in the United States that a nation whose “economy depends so strongly on free science” would “make such a mistake”.

Ursula von der Leyen, President of the European Commission, announced an investment of 566 million US dollars at the conference over the next two years to make Europe a magnet for researchers. The money, she said, will support “the best and the brightest” from all over the world.

As Mr. Macron mentioned from Leyen, the United States did not mention, but she described a global environment in which “basic, free and open research is questioned”.