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Red coalition goes green for French election

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Left-wing bloc’s manifesto doubles down on environmental policy but gives scant attention to research

The New Popular Front, a coalition of left-wing parties, has pledged to push for “a more ambitious” version of France’s LPR research programming law, but it has not elaborated on how it will do this.

The NFP’s manifesto for the upcoming legislative election, the first to be published by a major contender, contains few other mentions of research or innovation policy, but it does detail several environmental initiatives that are likely to play well with researchers.

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