Netherlands launches fund to lure top scientists, like those fleeing the U.S.

Rather than top scientists, the fund should target the young scientists, and or promoting companies that will employ these guys locally. Once lost to somewhere like the US, they rarely return. Me and a Lot of my friends who left in 97 and I still keep in touch with would never return without similar opportunities locally or the same seed funding we can get in US.

This is an excellent initiative, and no doubt France will be making the same very soon.

We've witnessed it in Europe previously, in the financial sector. Before Brexit, London was by far the most important city for Finance in Europe. It's still the case for now, but Paris is growing very quickly, and Amsterdam is following too. Most major banks & trading shops opened offices in those 2 cities - the gap in salaries / bonuses, which used to be huge, is disapearing.

From the article though - "The amount of funding available has not yet been determined" - this and the last paragraph, sadly reflect partly the slowness of Europe. This is an unprecedent opportunity, maybe once in a lifetime, to attract top researches from the US towards EU, and it seems it's not yet the top priority.