imerayuk @ imerayuk @discuss.tchncs.de

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Is it ready for a 'brain drain'?

My guess is: We are. Auto-translated:

Acting Education Minister Cem Özdemir has called for the admission of US academics to Germany and Europe. This would require a European concept

The acting Federal Minister of Education and Research, Cem Özdemir, wants to recruit scientists from the USA. ‘If researchers from the USA - but also from all over the world - are interested in working in Germany, we see this as an opportunity for our excellent centre of research and innovation, which we want to take advantage of,’ the Green politician told Redaktionsnetzwerk Deutschland (RND). The German university and science system offers numerous research programmes and scholarships.

Leading scientists in Germany had previously called for the targeted recruitment of researchers from the USA, where they are suffering under President Donald Trump's government policy. The so-called Meitner-Einstein Programme is aimed at scientists whose work cannot be continued in the USA, or only to a limited extent.

European concept for the admission of researchers

Özdemir said that there is "a broad understanding that Germany and Europe need to be strengthened now". This would require ‘a broad concept, preferably a European one’. He had already exchanged ideas with his French counterpart and signalled to the EU Commission ‘that the EU should use existing measures to support talented scientists from countries suffering from political and financial influence’. The future German government could follow on directly from this.

In the USA, hundreds of leading scientists from the fields of engineering and medicine recently accused the US government of a ‘major attack on American science’ in an open letter. This could set back research by decades and threaten the health and safety of Americans, it said.

https://archive.is/fGhTJ

I would like to see more opinions from the Greenland locals, but I doubt that they want to exchange Denmark with the USA.

I do know that they want to go independent and it seems as if a majority wants to be part of the European Union:

According to a poll (auto-translated):

40 years after Greenland left the EU, the mood is perhaps turning.

In a survey conducted by Nasiffik – the Centre for Foreign Affairs and Security Policy on Ilisimatusarfik – 60 percent of respondents say that they will vote 'aap' if a referendum was held on Greenlandic membership of the EU.

• It is a surprising result that there is now a relatively large majority in the Greenlandic population who believe that Greenland should join the EU, says Rasmus Leander Nielsen, head of Nasiffik.

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https://knr.gl/da/nyheder/flertal-vil-have-groenland-tilbage-i-eu