by EPHA | Dec 7, 2016 | Opinion, Statements
The EU recently concluded a new free trade deal with Canada – the Comprehensive Economic and Trade Agreement, or CETA for short. The deal has considerable side effects for people and public policy making. It has the potential to undermine public health by opening the...
by European Public Health Alliance | Dec 6, 2016 | Opinion
“Children’s health and Europe’s future must always be above commercial interests. I hope @Europarl_EN has courage & resolve to improve #AVMSD.” Tweeting after the event about the audiovisual media services directive, “AVMSD: What about our kids?”...
by EPHA | Nov 23, 2016 | Opinion
EPHA welcomes the presence of a stronger social dimension as part of the Annual Growth Survey 2017. The AGS is a key document launching the European Semester process, a yearly cycle of economic policy coordination, each year. The AGS sets out general economic and...
by European Public Health Alliance | Nov 3, 2016 | Opinion
By Martyna Giedrojć, Policy Officer for Health Systems “One of the features of the Fourth Industrial Revolution is that it doesn’t change what we are doing but it changes us in the way we do it; how we live, work, and relate to one another“ Professor Klaus Schwab,...
by European Public Health Alliance | Nov 3, 2016 | Opinion
By Zoltan Massay-Kosubek, Policy Co-ordinator for Healthy Trade and Health Equity and Catherine Hartmann, Secretary General of the European COPD Coalition The Hungarian version of the article is available below/A cikk magyar nyelvű változata lent olvasható Budapest,...
by European Public Health Alliance | Nov 3, 2016 | Opinion
By Zoltan Massay-Kosubek, Policy Co-ordinator for Healthy Trade and Trade Equity Wallonia, the small, French-speaking region of Belgium with its own parliament was the focus for EU trade officials, national governments and the world’s media last month when it pressed...