The European Commission’s Scientific Advice Mechanism has suffered various setbacks. Craig Nicholson considers whether this indicates a system failure.
The European Commission’s Scientific Advice Mechanism is set to suffer a familiar setback: the loss of one of the seven members of its high-level group of scientific advisers. Mathematician Cédric Villani will depart the SAM in September after winning a seat in the French parliament.
The high-level group is the most visible component of the SAM. The group met for the first time in January 2016, but by December it had its first casualty: meteorologist Julia Slingo retired and was replaced from a list of reserves. Two months later the group’s chairman, food scientist Henrik Wegener, stepped down to become rector of the University of Copenhagen and was also replaced.
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