Michel Berson, a senator for president Emmanuel Macron’s party, has said that the ANR, France’s national research agency, is “chronically underfunded”.
Berson presented a report on the state of the ANR to the Senate on 27 July. He said that the report, which will be published later this week, would recommend that the ANR’s budget to for research projects, which stood at €457 million in 2016, should be increased to at least €650m by 2020.
If this is not done, the ANR will risk becoming so impotent that the question of its very existence will come into play, he said.
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