Macron Says Trump’s Academic Crackdown Threatens U.S.

“Emmanuel Macron has warned that Donald Trump’s crackdown on U.S. scientific research threatens America’s economy and democracy, as the French leader and European Commission president Ursula von der Leyen made a pitch to researchers to come to Europe instead,” the Financial Times reports.

Said Macron: “No one could have thought that the world’s biggest democracy, whose economic model relies so heavily on science, on innovation and on its ability…  to have disseminated this innovation more widely than its European peers, would make such a mistake. But here we are.”