by European Public Health Alliance | May 3, 2016 | Opinion
Restricting the use of transfats in the food system will quickly yield significant and directly observable results. Removing trans fats from products is not only possible, but has been done by many small and big food companies alike. Why are we still waiting for the...
by EPHA | Apr 25, 2016 | Uncategorized
Trilogues have de facto become a routine final step of the decision making process where critical decisions are reached with decisive impacts on the stringency or effectiveness of legislation. Their behind-closed-doors nature weakens accountability and trust in the... by European Public Health Alliance | Mar 27, 2016 | Opinion
By Sascha Marschang, Policy Manager, EPHA The latest terrorist attacks in Europe, combined with big political question marks hanging over the UK, Turkey and elsewhere, are contributing to the general malaise felt by many Europeans – uncertainty and distress as a...
by EPHA | Mar 2, 2016 | Uncategorized
The MSF report, ’Obstacles Course to Europe’ comes at a particularly timely moment as EU countries including Sweden, Germany and Austria, which in 2015 received high numbers of asylum claims, have reinstated border controls with neighbouring states to significantly...
by EPHA | Aug 6, 2015 | Statements
EPHA has sent an open letter to Hungarian Minister of Health Gábor Zombor, congratulating him on the initiative to implement a plain packaging policy for tobacco products in Hungary. To the attention of: Dr Gábor Zombor, Minister of State for Health, Hungary Dear...