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This week: a university name change, CNRS salutes France’s EU presidency and Bordeaux property transfers
In depth: France’s powerful association of university presidents, the CPU, has called on the French government to push for a US-style National Institutes of Health organisation during its tenure of the EU presidency.
Full story: EU needs health-research booster shot, say university leaders