Austria’s near withdrawal from CERN had Europe’s scientific community up in arms
Research into the origins of life is at the heart of the scientific prospect. But navigating the seas of research and its stormy implications for ministerial budgets is sometimes an art, as Minister of Science and Research Johannes Hahn found out this month.
May 7 was, as one Austrian physicist said, “a dark day for scientists in Austria.” Minister Hahn suddenly announced that, after 50-years of membership, Austria would withdraw from the European Organization for Nuclear Research (CERN), shocking researchers around the world.
