French President Emmanuel Macron and European Commission head Ursula von der Leyen are hosting a conference in Paris aimed at attracting US researchers ready to set their sights abroad because of President Donald Trump’s policies.
French President Emmanuel Macron on Monday called US science policies under Trump a mistake at a conference aimed at attracting US researchers to the EU.
The European Union launched a drive on Monday to attract scientists and researchers to Europe with offers of grants and new policy plans, after the Trump administration froze US government funding linked to diversity, equity and inclusion initiatives.
“A few years ago, no one would have imagined that one of the biggest democracies in the world would cancel research programs under the pretext that the word diversity was in this program,” French President Emmanuel Macron said at the “Choose Europe for Science” event in Paris.
“No one would have thought that one of the biggest democracies in the world would delete with a stroke the ability of one researcher or another to obtain visas,” Macron said. “But here we are.”
