by European Public Health Alliance | Jan 10, 2017 | Opinion
The European Parliament Environment, Public Health and Food Safety (ENVI) Committee will have a crucial opportunity to ensure policy coherence between Trade and Health and will vote on about the Comprehensive Economic and Trade Agreement (CETA) between the EU and...
by European Public Health Alliance | Dec 9, 2016 | Opinion
Urgent action is needed in Latvia to tackle poor health provision, high levels of poverty and inadequate housing. This is the message of a new report, Focus on Latvia, published by the Semester Alliance and directed at the European Commission as it drafts the country...
by European Public Health Alliance | Dec 8, 2016 | Opinion
Governments in Europe are facing challenges unprecedented in the last half century. Health equity is a thread that runs through all of them. It is no coincidence that the biggest gap between the “Haves and Have-nots” since the Second World War, as pointed...
by European Public Health Alliance | Dec 8, 2016 | Opinion
Following the signature of the Comprehensive Economic and Trade Agreement (CETA) at the EU-Canada Summit on 30 October 2016, the European Parliament and national parliaments across the EU now have to approve or reject the deal. The past month has seen an unprecedented...
by European Public Health Alliance | Dec 8, 2016 | Opinion
In November, the European Commission published its Annual Growth Survey 2017 (AGS), a key document setting out the main EU economic priorities for the coming year. The AGS kickstarts the annual cycle of the European Semester Process and will be followed by the...
by EPHA | Dec 8, 2016 | Opinion
Many medicines are increasingly becoming unaffordable. Many ‘new’ medicines turn out to be no more effective than those already being used. Global health needs are not driving medical research and development. Today, access to medicines has become a global...
