While Trump targets researchers, Europe makes a stadium to attract scientists

Like the United States government The flow of support for research institutions Universities such as Harvard and Colombia threaten to freeze federal funds, and European leaders hope to benefit from what they call an American “mistake” and “huge miscalculation”.

“No one can imagine a few years ago that one of the great democracies in the world will eliminate the search programs for the pretext that the word” diversity “appeared in its program,” said President Emmanuel Macron from France on Monday.

He was speaking at Sorbon University in Paris during an event called “Europe’s choice of science”, organized by the French government and the European Union.

Mr. Macron said that it was not possible, in reference to the withdrawal of researchers visas in the United States, that a “nation whose economy” is strongly dependent on free flag “would make such a mistake.”

Ursula von der Layen, President of the European Commission, has announced an investment of $ 566 million at the conference to “make Europe as magnets for researchers” over the next two years. She said that the money will support “the best and bright” from all over the world.

Like Mr. Macron, Mrs. von der Lynne did not mention the United States as name, but described a global environment where “basic, open and open research” is interrogated.

“What a tremendous miscalculation!” She said.

In Europe, there is a widespread feeling that Mr. Trump has abandoned America’s traditional support for freedom, freedom of expression and democracy by embracing tyranny and assaulting academic circles. This has created strains, but also a sense of opportunity in Europe, as it is seen attracting the best scientific minds to strong and independent universities as part of a broader campaign to “restore” Europe as an independent force.

In the long run, the European Commission, the European Union’s executive arm, plans to double grants to researchers who move to Europe and devote the freedom of scientific research into a law called the European Research Law.

“The first priority is to ensure that the flag in Europe is still open and free. This is our communication card,” said Mrs. von der Layen. “With the rise in threats all over the world, Europe will not give up its principles. Europe must remain the home of free academic and scientific values.”

The Trump administration’s attack on science and threats for universities was the main motive for the conference, which was attended by government ministers and prominent researchers from all over Europe. Increasingly, the United States is seen as a strategic opponent, as American researchers and scientists are seen as an effective long -term response to this challenge.

He said that Mr. Macron’s message to scientists – especially women, was: “If you like freedom, come, help us to stay free.”

He announced that his government would devote $ 113 million to welcome foreign researchers, and promised that they would not replace European scientists.

Warnings in Europe started sounding When the Trump administration has reduced jobs and scientific grants in leading American institutions were freeze as part of cost reduction measures. European panic increased with the United States government to attack diversity programs and tried to dictate universities “that they can accept and employ, and any areas of study and investigation that they can follow.” Words of Harvard PresidentAlan M. Garper.