Have the mayors of Metz and Nancy managed to settle their differences with missives distributed to the press? Friday, François Grosdidier in any case chose to copy the media to the rather biting mail he had just sent to Mathieu Klein. The subject of this letter is the installation, the day before, of the ” Strategic Research, University and Health Committee ” of Grand Nancy. A local scientific council which “has for mission to draw up an inventory of the scientific potential, to make recommendations to reinforce the attractiveness of the territory”, according to the socialist mayor of Nancy.
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For his part, François Grosdidier also sees it as a body for reflection on the future of the University of Lorraine. Hence his anger: “I would like to draw your attention to the ambiguities of this approach and to the misunderstandings it can give rise to”, he wrote to Mathieu Klein. “Indeed, the reading of the press releases and the relation which is made of this event could suggest that the Nancy territory and the perimeter of the University of Lorraine are one. “
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He continues: “The approach initiated – in any case the presentation that is made of it – seems to be the affirmation of a prevalence of Nancy on the rest of the Lorraine region, treating Metz at best as a branch of its neighbor. “
François Grosdidier thus evokes “the unease which is felt on one of the two poles of the University of Lorraine, namely the Metz campus, deliberately ignored by your initiative which seems to appropriate the University of Lorraine. “” I deeply regret your statements which betray a desire to work without, if not against our metropolis, “concludes the mayor of Metz. Contacted Friday, Mathieu Klein did not wish to react.
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