“The conditions of Spanish scientists are now worse than in 2010”

By 10/07/2020 Portal

Boxer Mike Tyson was asked one day about the strategy to follow in a fight and he responded with a memorable phrase: “Everyone has a plan until they get punched in the mouth.” The Minister of Science, Pedro Duque, has been in the ring of politics and has long since abandoned his original plans. This Thursday he accompanied the President of the Government, Pedro Sánchez, in the presentation of a “shock plan” with more than 1,000 million euros in two years to promote Spanish science. He official document makes a devastating diagnosis of the current situation, after a decade of cuts and paralyzing bureaucracy. Duque, born in Madrid in 1963, defends that the shock plan, an annual increase in 20% with “new money”, is only a first step.

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