France to welcome researchers fleeing US

PARIS, Mar 09 (AFP): France has urged the country's research institutions to consider how to welcome scientists abandoning the United States in response to President Donald Trump's policies, AFP learned on Sunday.

Since Trump returned to the White House, his government has cut federal funding for life-saving research and moved to dismiss hundreds of federal workers working on health and climate.

"Many well-known researchers are already questioning their future in the United States," France's minister for higher education and research Philippe Baptiste wrote in a letter to the country's institutions.

"We would naturally wish to welcome a certain number of them."