Europe Unveils $565 Million Plan to Attract Scientists From U.S. as Trump Defunds Basic Research

European leaders unveiled a new initiative Monday to entice U.S. scientists to bring their expertise across the Atlantic. They’re calling it “Choose Europe for Science,” and it will allocate €500 million ($565 million U.S.) over the next three years to “make Europe a magnet for researchers” from around the world. European Commission President Ursula von der Leyen and French President Emmanuel Macron spoke at Sorbonne University in France to announce the effort Monday. And while neither mentioned President Donald Trump by name, his government’s destruction of scientific research funding in the U.S. was clearly the impetus for all of it. “We must not downplay what is at stake today. No one could have imagined a few years ago that one of the world’s largest democracies would abolish research programs on the grounds that there was the word ‘diversity’ in their programs,” Macron said, according to an English translation. Trump has launched a war against what he calls DEI efforts, which h ... Read full article.