'Choose Europe,' von der Leyen tells US scientists threatened by Trump's policies
In implicit criticism against Donald Trump's policies, Ursula von der Leyen said attacking free and open science was a "gigantic miscalculation".
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In implicit criticism against Donald Trump's policies, Ursula von der Leyen said attacking free and open science was a "gigantic miscalculation".
READ MORE : http://www.euronews.com/2025/05/05/choose-europe-von-der-leyen-tells-us-scientists-threatened-by-trumps-policies
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00:00Making Europe a magnet for researchers.
00:09This is the ambition of the Choose Europe strategy presented by the President of the European Commission at the Sorbonne University in Paris.
00:17Although she did not explicitly refer to the attacks on academic freedom in the US,
00:22Ursula von der Leyen announced that she wanted to enshrine the freedom of scientific research in a new European act.
00:29The first priority is to ensure that science in Europe remains open and free.
00:38This is our calling card.
00:42We must do everything we can to uphold it, now more than ever before.
00:49We want to strengthen the free movement of knowledge and data across Europe, just as we do for goods, talents and capital across our single market.
01:00The European Commission puts on the table a 500 million euro package.
01:04The long term objective is to spend 3% of EU GDP on research and development investment by 2030.
01:12However, researchers believe that there are other elements to be considered.
01:17Anybody who comes in, they come into one country, they should also then be able to move to any other country with their pensions, with all their entitlements.
01:27So those are three things, mobility, infrastructure and funding.
01:31Finally, the Commission wants to cut red tape to support research and innovation, even though clear laws can be an asset, according to this researcher.
01:40We have that regulatory certainty that is missing in a lot of other places and especially in the US.
01:45And I think this can give, not only should give more confidence to consumers, but may also give more confidence to researchers and to business people that they know the limits and the opportunities that they have given the laws.
02:00For his part, Emmanuel Macron announced that the French state would invest an additional 100 million euros in R&D by 2030.
02:08The French president was more direct in his condemnation, not hesitating to call the abolition of research programs in the United States a mistake on the pretext that they use the term diversity.