EUROPE - Grants Attract US Scientists

Analysts are sounding the alarm over a growing ‘brain drain’ as American scientists and international researchers flee to Europe, an exodus driven by deep cuts to research funding and stricter visa rules under the Trump administration.

A 2025 poll by Nature found that 75% of American scientists were considering leaving the United States. This potential mass departure has contributed to policies aimed at further restricting the flow of international students, who have long fueled American research.

European grants such as Atrae have become a major draw for scientists leaving the US. Organizations across the continent have announced increased funding for initiatives aimed at attracting researchers to the region, such as the European Research Council’s “Choose Europe.”

Additionally, the report highlights the lasting impact of a significant brain drain: once laboratories close and research teams disperse, the expertise and momentum they have built are often impossible to fully recover.

-www.jpost.com, 2 March 2026

Commentary: “Brain drain” is something this writer noticed in the news when living in Australia in the 1960s. Australia was very attractive for British scientists. Quite obviously, those who made their choice to emigrate are on the winning side. For example, Australia is now listed as the second richest country behind Switzerland.

We may ask, how will it affect the US? Doubtless, negatively. To what extent? Only time will tell.

Daniel the prophet dissects the world’s power structures into four: Babylon, Medo-Persia, Greece, and Rome. Of the fourth one he writes, “After this I saw in the night visions, and behold a fourth beast, dreadful and terrible, and strong exceedingly; and it had great iron teeth: it devoured and brake in pieces, and stamped the residue with the feet of it: and it was diverse from all the beasts that were before it; and it had ten horns” (Daniel 7:7). We note the word “diverse.”

The old-time power structure—the conqueror who had the upper hand in battle—established power over others. Today, it’s all about merchandise.

In verse 23 we read: “Thus he said, The fourth beast shall be the fourth kingdom upon earth, which shall be diverse from all kingdoms, and shall devour the whole earth, and shall tread it down, and break it in pieces.”

Only Europe subjected the world to its power, establishing colonies around the globe. But this new global empire, now in the forming stages, will experience Armageddon—the annihilation of the world’s economic system: “For all nations have drunk of the wine of the wrath of her fornication, and the kings of the earth have committed fornication with her, and the merchants of the earth are waxed rich through the abundance of her delicacies” (Revelation 18:3).

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