The state “will not cut its subsidy” to Sciences Po Paris, Higher Education Minister Sylvie Retailleau said this Tuesday, a day after announcing the “suspension” of funding for the Ile-de-France region.
75 crore funded by the state
“We have a contract under discussion on objectives and means of performance, we have leverage to discuss with Sciences Po,” but “the state will not cut Sciences Po’s subsidy,” Sylvie Retailleau said Telemathestimates the state funding of Sciences Po Paris at 75 million euros.
Valérie Pécresse, LR president of the Ile-de-France region, announced on Monday evening the “suspension” of funding from the region (i.e. one million euros) to the facility following blockades and mobilizations, sometimes interrupted by tension, within Sciences Po. in recent days in support of the Palestinians.
“No anti-Semitic comments”
When asked about the suspension of disciplinary proceedings announced on Friday by the management against the students mobilized in these actions, the minister of higher education repeated that it was only a single sanction, “connected to the invasion of the staircase leading (to the offices) of the management”.
She added that there were “no anti-Semitic remarks” and “no violence”. “There will never be any talk of lifting the sanction related to anti-Semitic statements,” said Sylvie Retailleau.
And “there will be no suspension of cooperation with universities in Israel,” she said, referring to one of the activists’ demands.