USPA NEWS - The President of the French Republic, Emmanuel Macron, chaired over the closing of the 40th anniversary of the National Consultative Ethics Committee for Life and Health Sciences (NCEC), on Thursday March 9, 2023, at the Institut de France. "It is an honor for me to celebrate among you today these 40 glorious years of the NCEC and to thank you, members of yesterday and today, for having each brought your stone to this building and for to do here at the Institut de France, whose importance and history you have recalled. And you have collectively written on its pediment these two words science and conscience which, for the good of our country, should never be separated." Said explains President Macron, by way of introduction to him who studied philosophy at the University of Nanterre, before embarking on politics.
"This institution, the first in the world to have this mission, this composition, this functioning, has become an example that has been emulated. Other countries soon followed suit and I know that you regularly hold meetings with the ethics committees of England and Germany, whose structure is closest to ours, and even once a year with all of your European equivalents...
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