(FILES) Chairman and CEO of the CNRS Antoine Petit arrives at the Elysee Palace to attend the "Accelerating Our Re-industrialisation" meeting gathering business leaders, associations, community and government representatives at the Elysee presidential Palace in Paris, on May 11, 2023. CNRS CEO Antoine Petit lamented on Wednesday a budgetary situation "that is going to become extremely complicated" due to expenses not covered by the government, warning of the consequences of underinvestment in science. (Photo by Ludovic MARIN / AFP via Getty Images)