Why don't we delete the CNRS?

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Why don't we delete the CNRS?

With its 32,000 staff (only half of them researchers) and a budget of €3.7 billion, the National Centre for Scientific Research has become an administrative pachyderm, which has accumulated duplicates and has not been at the top of the rankings for a long time. There are other institutions with almost equal competences: universities. The very degraded state finance situation and the obvious excess of expenditure should require any government wit…