Pro-Palestinian mobilization on campuses, use of screens, Valérie Hayer’s list is struggling… François Bayrou’s “8h30 franceinfo”

The High Commissioner for Planning, President of MoDem and Mayor of Pau was the guest of “8h30 franceinfo”, Tuesday April 30, 2024.

François Bayrou, High Commissioner for Planning, president of the MoDem and mayor of Pau, was the guest of “8h30 franceinfo”, Tuesday April 30, 2024. Pro-Palestinian mobilization of students, recommendation for the use of screens among children, the majority struggling for the European elections… He answered questions from Salhia Brakhlia and Jérôme Chapuis.

Pro-Palestinian mobilization at Sciences Po: “The State has a responsibility”

“There is not a Republican citizen who is not concerned about what is happening at Sciences Po”affirms François Bayrou, while the LR president of the Île-de-France region, Valérie Pécresse, announced that she wanted to suspend its funding at Sciences Po Paris, after student demonstrations in support of Gaza organized for several days.

The High Commissioner for Planning affirms that “Sciences Po Paris is 45% funded by the State” and “the State has a responsibility” to ensure that the establishment “do not become a battlefield”.

🔴”What I contest is that Sciences Po, which has been the crucible of reflection, sharing, ideas, convictions, that Sciences Po thus becomes the closed field of people who no longer listen to anyone”, regrets François Bayrou. pic.twitter.com/n2FvWQR0QH

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“The impact of screens on intelligence is real and dangerous”

François Bayrou denounces “the disproportionate place” tablets and screens in schools. “The impact of screens on intelligence, on the psychological and intellectual constitution of children, the youngest and then adolescents, is real and dangerous”he believes, while a report on the subject will be submitted this Tuesday to Emmanuel Macron.

“We were wrong” by distributing digital tablets in high schools, recognizes the former Minister of National Education. “In front of a book, in front of a text, the mind is by nature in an active situation, it will seek information and in front of a screen, you are in a situation of passivity”, he emphasizes.

Europeans: “It’s easier to campaign when you’re in opposition”

Asked about the place of the list of Valérie Hayer, candidate of the majority, in the polls a little more than a month before the European elections, François Bayrou assures that “it’s easier to run campaigns when you’re in the opposition than when you’re in the majority”. The Renaissance list fails to catch up with that of the National Rally, led by Jordan Bardella and credited with more than 30% of voting intentions.

🔴 European elections ➡️ “[Il faut faire] measure the severity of the risks to which we are exposed and show that there are answers. These answers, the only current of opinion which carries them, is the current of the list that Valérie Hayer will lead,” says François Bayrou. pic.twitter.com/Xu9Ue5Astz

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The president of the MoDem still believes that the Macronist camp “has answers” And “that these answers, the only current of opinion which carries them, is the current of the list that Valérie Hayer will lead”. He also attacks the Place Publique candidate, Raphaël Glucksmann: “Chow can one be so far removed from awareness of emergencies as to refuse plans [en référence au pacte migratoire] that the major European countries build together to control their destiny”asks François Bayrou.

Find the entire “8:30 am franceinfo” from Tuesday April 30, 2024: