No, I am not aware of this. It is normal not to consult an organization such as ours regarding the renewal of some specific program. When the news came out, during the summer, I was on vacation. We found the press release a few weeks later. Actually, summer is often a calm period for artistic organizations.
For us, the most important priority was to renew the final phase of the program that was then known by the name "Today is Tomorrow". It was one of the important components. It was among the cuts that had not been announced in June, and we were wondering if there would be another one in the publication program. I do not know whether this was done, I did not follow the situation closely enough. We were happy with that. As I just said, Mr. Del Mastro could theoretically have quoted me and described how happy we were with this commitment, which was real. Had we been consulted—which would have been unlikely—we would have said no, just as we are saying no today. Cutting the budgets for basic research is not a good idea.