I'm an inherently optimistic person, so I tell myself that we're going to move forward and make progress.
I'm concerned about how slow we are on this. We have taken real action and made real progress. That's obvious. However, it must be understood that we are less of a privileged partner to other countries than we were 20 or 30 years ago. For example, a few years ago, we were France's fifth-largest international research partner. Now we're number eight. We were the fourth-largest partner of the United Kingdom. Now we're ninth.
So I wouldn't want the efforts being made to confirm the recommendations to delay the implementation of the recommendations, for which there has been a very broad consensus for at least ten years.
