EU-Canada ties prompt call for Erasmus revival to counter nationalist ideologies

The president of Jean-Moulin Lyon-III University, Gilles Bonnet, urges the academic community to return to the original spirit of the Erasmus program, framing it as a democratic counter to nationalist and retrograde ideologies amid geopolitical instability. The call coincides with strengthened EU-Canada ties, but it is an opinion piece with no concrete policy change.