Source: European Parliament
Question for oral answer O-000021/2025
to the Commission
Rule 142
Mathilde Androuët (PfE), Jean-Paul Garraud (PfE), Galato Alexandraki (ECR), Christophe Bay (PfE), Barbara Bonte (PfE), Marie-Luce Brasier-Clain (PfE), Anna Bryłka (PfE), Marie Dauchy (PfE), Valérie Deloge (PfE), Emmanouil Fragkos (ECR), Anne-Sophie Frigout (PfE), Tomasz Froelich (ESN), Angéline Furet (PfE), Juan Carlos Girauta Vidal (PfE), Catherine Griset (PfE), Jorge Martín Frías (PfE), Fernand Kartheiser (NI), Jorge Buxadé Villalba (PfE), Fabrice Leggeri (PfE), Julien Leonardelli (PfE), Tiago Moreira de Sá (PfE), Aleksandar Nikolic (PfE), Philippe Olivier (PfE), Gilles Pennelle (PfE), Pascale Piera (PfE), Pierre Pimpie (PfE), Julie Rechagneux (PfE), Volker Schnurrbusch (ESN), António Tânger Corrêa (PfE), Dominik Tarczyński (ECR), Hermann Tertsch (PfE), Rody Tolassy (PfE), Laurence Trochu (ECR), Sebastian Tynkkynen (ECR), Matthieu Valet (PfE), Séverine Werbrouck (PfE), Ondřej Knotek (PfE)
On 5 May 2025, President Emmanuel Macron launched the ‘Choose Europe for Science’ initiative at the Sorbonne amphitheatre to make France and Europe more attractive to researchers and entrepreneurs[1]. This initiative foresees an additional investment of EUR 100 million[2]. For her part, Commission President Von der Leyen proposed EUR 500 million to make Europe a ‘pole of attraction’. The 2030 target is to increase investment in R&D to 3% of GDP. Behind this plan is mainly the desire to attract researchers fleeing the United States, where budget cuts have been decided by the Trump administration, with the aim of countering the influence of wokism in American universities[3].
- 1.What specific actions does the Commission intend to take to combat wokism and to re-establish universities as places of knowledge and excellence?
- 2.How will the announced funds be used? To what extent will they primarily benefit European researchers and students in order to improve their working conditions?
Submitted: 10.6.2025
Lapses: 11.9.2025
- [1] Launch of “Choose Europe for Science” at the Sorbonne, Élysée, 5 May 2025, URL: https://www.elysee.fr/en/emmanuel-macron/2025/05/05/launch-of-choose-europe-for-science-at-the-sorbonne
- [2] Emmanuel Macron annonce un nouvel investissement de 100 millions d’euros pour séduire les chercheurs étrangers [Emmanuel Macron announces a new investment of EUR 100 million to attract foreign researchers], Le Monde, 5 May 2025, URL: :https://www.lemonde.fr/sciences/article/2025/05/05/emmanuel-macron-annonce-un-nouvel-investissement-de-100-millions-d-euros-pour-seduire-les-chercheurs-etrangers_6603132_1650685.html
- [3] Choose Europe for Science : pour les scientifiques américains, un accueil en France dans des universités délabrées [Choose Europe for Science: American scientists welcomed to France amid dilapidated universities], Libération, 4 May 2025, URL: https://www.liberation.fr/sciences/choose-europe-for-science-pour-les-scientifiques-americains-un-accueil-en-france-dans-des-universites-delabrees-20250504_QGTCYN5GDJAFTFL7J3OSK3J74I/