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France, EU Take Aim At Trump's Assault On Science, Seek To Lure US Researchers

The EU hopes to attract researchers, especially from Trump's United States (Credit: AFP)

French President Emmanuel Macron and European Commission head Ursula von der Leyen took aim at Donald Trump's policies on science on Monday, as the European Union seeks to encourage disgruntled US researchers to relocate to Europe.

Von der Leyen told a conference at Paris's Sorbonne university that the EU would launch a new incentives package worth 500 million euros ($567 million) to make the 27-nation bloc "a magnet for researchers".

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