Only in Spain...

[Myrtle Hogan-Lance]

Research institute denies scholarship to best young physicist in Europe

First two paragraphs:

"Spanish physicist Diego Martínez Santos was denied a scholarship with the Ramón y Cajal Institute, which repatriates the country's top scientific investigators under the auspices of the research and development department of the Economy Ministry, for what it termed "a lack of international leadership."

On the very same day the commission denied Santos's application, the 30-year-old from Foz in Lugo province was named the best young physicist on the continent by the European Physical Society (EPS), an award granted every two years."

Guess he is not related to the guy approving the scholarships.  But I predict he will go on to greater things.

[Janet]

perhaps not only in Spain ... I know a few other places where it could happen, Wales being one of them ... but it is more blatant here than anywhere else I have known.