EU science chief resigns over coronavirus response

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NSTworld He complained that the strategy he had proposed to fight Covid19 had been unanimously rejected.

Mauro Ferrari, who only took over as president of the ERC in January, told the Financial Times he was"extremely disappointed" by the EU's response to the pandemic, which has hit Italy and Spain particularly hard.

"The Commission regrets the resignation of Professor Ferrari at this early stage in his mandate, and at these times of unprecedented crisis in which the role of EU research is key," the spokesman said in a statement.

 

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