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How Covid-19 just transformed entire EU health policy

WEBAnniek de Ruijter is associate professor of European law at the School of Law, University of Amsterdam. EU health policy has three faces: explicit health policy, …

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WHO: Covid will be a 'dual pandemic'

WEBPreviously she worked on European affairs at VoteWatch Europe and the Spanish news agency EFE. The WHO's Dr Natasha Azzopardi-Muscat explains Covid-19 has brought …

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EUobserver Magazine

WEBMedicines. As this magazine goes to press, the World Health Organisation has registered just shy of seven million global deaths due to COVID-19. It also has registered over 13.5 …

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WHO 'good news': more proof of milder Omicron symptoms

WEBA senior World Health Organisation (WHO) official said on Tuesday (4 January) that hospitalisations and death rates linked to the spread of the more …

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Health & Society

WEBHealth & SocietyFeature. In the EU, around 87 million people have some form of disability. Yet barely five percent of members of the European Parliament identify as …

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Global North-South inequality — can the EU do anything

WEBGlobal inequality is growing, and the future of the world will depend largely on relations between North and South, said MEP Udo Bullmann (S&D) at a high-level …

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Tackling 'healthcare drain': lessons from Eastern Europe

WEBListen to article. For years, Romania topped all lists of staff shortages in the healthcare sector. Since its official entry into the EU in 2007 (and until 2013), 14,000 …

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Bulgaria and Romania have Europe's lowest life-expectancy

WEBBulgaria and Romania have Europe's lowest life-expectancy. The end of 2021 brought bad news for both Bulgarians and Romanians, as the latest European Commission Health …

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The obstacles facing young mothers running to be MEPs

WEB“Just get on with it” was the advice New Zealand prime minister Jacinda Ardern claims she received from the late Queen Elizabeth II on how to balance the …

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Romania: Inside the EU's worst healthcare, as virus hits

WEBFacing looming medical shortages, and just 12 days into his investiture, Victor Costache last week (26 March) quit as Romania's health minister - just as the …

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Bloomberg index: Spain world's healthiest country

WEBThe 2019 edition of the Bloomberg Healthiest Country Index ranked Spain as the world's healthiest country, followed by Italy and Iceland. Researchers attribute part of the …

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Hate against Muslims and Jews still rising, says EU commission

WEBAn explosion of hatred against Muslims and Jews continues to spread throughout the EU, says the European Commission. "We are witnessing with horror the …

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EU fears as microplastics spill hits French/Spanish coastlines

WEBAs the coastline of Galicia in northern Spain wakes up to another day with hundreds of volunteers cleaning microplastics from the beach, the EU has sounded the …

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The EU labour strike map: the rise and fall of industrial action

WEBby Paula Soler, Brussels, April 11, 2023, 7:54:09 AM. 0 co-observer s. Throughout 2022 and into 2023 so far, a new surge of industrial action has taken place …

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