Elisabeth PainThe French government this week unveiled a draft science bill that promises to increase public research spending with an extra €25 billion over the next 10 years.
The French research minister Frédérique Vidal, who presented the bill to the Council of Ministers on 22 July, said the money fills an urgent need “to deeply refinance research.”“There was a true demand for this law in the academic community,” says Patrick Lemaire, president of the French Society of Developmental Biology.
Although the new funding would represent “some progress,” he says. “Paradoxically, the disappointment is immense because the needs were so great and we know now that, a priori, for 10 years we won’t have anything better.”In addition to laying out a.