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Health

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Uniform Codeine Regulation Needed
Stephen Spillane 1 Week, 4 Days, 16 Hours, 56 Minutes ago
As some of you may be aware I work for a pharmacy chain. As part of my job I cover the Pharmacy Counter. As of the 1st of August new regulations came in on the supply of products containing Codeine. This has created some confusion which is not helped...
Is nursing war by another means?
The European Citizen 2 Weeks, 1 Day, 15 Hours, 38 Minutes ago
It has been reported by EUReferendum and by the Daily Express in the UK, that EU law is preventing safety checks (and in the caase of the Daily Express), language checks on nurses from other EU countries that want to be registered as nurses in the UK...
The Passive Poisoning of the Romani People
Le Taurillon 2 Weeks, 4 Days, 20 Minutes ago
A side victim of the 1999 confrontations, the Romani population in North Kosovo is currently suffering one of the greatest sanitary and humanitarian disasters on the planet, says the WHO. Before the war, about 8000 Roma lived in a quarter of the peri...
Är Sverige som vilda västern?
Gunnar Hökmark 3 Weeks, 5 Hours, 54 Minutes ago
Socialdemokraterna menar att det är vilda västern som råder på den svenska arbetsmarknaden. Det var inget vidare arv de lämnade efter sig 2006, om de verkligen menar allvar med att det är vilda västern och människohandel som råder. Men lagl
Whisper it: Our health service is actually quite good.
Jason O'Mahony 3 Weeks, 21 Hours, 34 Minutes ago
Noel Whelan makes a very good point about cancer services in this piece, and also a general observation about media attitudes towards health-care in this country. It’s almost impossible to read a positive story in the Irish media about healt...
New tools needed to relieve malaria burden in Africa, study finds
CTA Brussels Weblog 3 Weeks, 3 Days, 19 Hours, 10 Minutes ago
Researchers in the UK have demonstrated that the tools currently available for combating malaria could dramatically reduce the burden of malignant malaria on parts of Africa if a comprehensive, sustained intervention programme were in place.
Visas et passeports
EGEA 3 Weeks, 4 Days, 11 Hours, 12 Minutes ago
Un lecteur me signale un phénomène intéressant : la multiplication des distributions de passeports en Europe. On pense bien sûr à la distribution de passeports hongrois aux magyarophones "de l'extérieur" (cf. mon billet) ce qui pose...
EU Opens Access to Studies on Drug Side Effects
Real Time Brussels - WSJ 4 Weeks, 1 Day, 15 Hours, 57 Minutes ago
The European Medicines Agency agreed to make available reports on possible side effects of drugs it has on file, adding a significant weapon to the arsenal of citizens pursuing lawsuits against drug companies.
Drogenkrieg in Mexiko: was wäre wenn…
wortwallungen 1 Month, 1 Hour, 35 Minutes ago
Diese Woche schrieb Vicente Fox, ehemaliger Präsident Mexikos und damals wichtiger Verbündeter der USA im Kampf gegen Drogen, in seinem Blog, dass eine Legalisierung der Produktion, des Vertriebs und des Verkaufs von Drogen eine effektive Strategie...
"scientifically proved to be effective and safe"
England Expects 1 Month, 1 Day, 2 Hours, 10 Minutes ago
This will be fun.According to the Eurpopean Communities Health Care Scheme (JSIS). Money spent on homeopathic remedies will be reimbursed if it,"has been scientifically proved to be effective and safe."We have sent in a question asking how many homeo...
Public Health, Private choice.
England Expects 1 Month, 1 Day, 8 Hours, 47 Minutes ago
You know when it a quite news period when Professor Steve Field's comments get front page staus in the Observer. There is so much wrong with his articlem, after a couple of basic platitudes that I leave it to the far more erudite Longrider to point y...
AMNOG: Krankenkassen, Kartellrecht und ein heftiger Streit
Kartellblog 1 Month, 1 Week, 10 Hours, 25 Minutes ago
Verfolgen Sie die Debatte, ob die Krankenkassen dem Kartellrecht unterstellt werden sollen? Sie sind es derzeit nämlich nur zum Teil. Zum 1. Januar 2011 soll sich das ändern. Dann werden sich für Anbieter von Arzneimitteln und Medizinprodukten int...
Mörka skuggor
Henrik-Alexandersson.se 1 Month, 1 Week, 2 Days, 19 Hours, 45 Minutes ago
I Frankrike pågår, som bekant, en hetsjakt på zigenare.Utöver det rent allmänt obehagliga i detta är det en sak jag reagerar speciellt emot. Romer kommer att undantas från den fria rörlighet för medborgare i EU:s medlemsstater, som kommer at...
We are all Roma now
European Alternatives 1 Month, 1 Week, 4 Days, 1 Hour, 27 Minutes ago
Recent events in France, Italy, Denmark and elsewhere have shown that discrimination against Roma is growing. But the Roma are a vanguard experiencing the prejudices any European citizen might come to face in another country - we must act to defend t...
Commissioner Piebalgs pushes for maternal and child health
CTA Brussels Weblog 1 Month, 2 Weeks, 1 Day, 2 Hours, 50 Minutes ago
From 24th to 26th July, European Commissioner for Development, Andris Piebalgs, will address the 15th African Union Summit in Kampala, Uganda. Maternal, infant and child health will be the core theme of the meeting gathering the 53 African Union Memb...
Seen this somewhere before?
Ooh, Brussels! 1 Month, 2 Weeks, 3 Days, 8 Hours, 52 Minutes ago
Interesting to see that the Daily Mail yesterday ran a story that you read about on Ooh, Brussels! MORE THAN TWO WEEKS AGO. In its typical Europhobic tone, the Mail’s article talked about the £12m “squandered” on the study, as repo...
Science+Europe=accuracy fail
Talking about the EU 1 Month, 2 Weeks, 4 Days, 2 Hours, 3 Minutes ago
I went to a very interesting event about science journalism in the UK last year at the Royal Institution which I blogged about about the time. One of my conclusions was that many of the issues faced by science journalism reflect very closely issues f...
Elif: Turkey on the ‘fruit era’ (!)
Erkan's field diary 1 Month, 2 Weeks, 5 Days, 4 Hours, 13 Minutes ago
The prime minister of Turkey Recep Tayyip Erdoğan had a shocking speech about drinking in the meeting of World Health Organization (WHO) at which he received a special award from the WHO for his championing of Turkey’s indoor smoking ban. Erdo...
Are potatoes the root of all evil?
Bit more complicated... 1 Month, 2 Weeks, 6 Days, 23 Hours, 56 Minutes ago
The chiropracter sorting my RSI said to me that he wanted to test whether I was sugar sensitive, and that I can’t physically deal with all the stress I’m under at present.  Tell me something I don’t know… I should explain, la...
EU: No more mad cows
Ooh, Brussels! 1 Month, 3 Weeks, 1 Day, 4 Hours, 50 Minutes ago
It seems such a long time ago that Mad Cow Disease first hit the headlines and British beef was demonised across the world. Now, the EU is considering relaxing the rules it put in place to stop the spread of BSE all those years ago. In fact the Europ...
Dope update
Ooh, Brussels! 1 Month, 3 Weeks, 1 Day, 22 Hours, 49 Minutes ago
As you may have seen, the European Court of Justice made its ruling on the case I mentioned on Tuesday regarding Dutch authorities closing down a coffeeshop which sold marijuana to foreigners. The ruling, from Advocate-General Yves Bot, caught some c...
Bird flu - mistakes made, and lessons to be learnt
Glenis Willmott (MEP) 1 Month, 3 Weeks, 6 Days, 1 Hour, 46 Minutes ago
Some interesting news from last week's meeting of Health ministers, where they discussed the reaction to the H1N1 (bird flu) pandemic and by all accounts concluded that by acting together the EU's Member States could have negotiated better terms with...
Feeling a little light headed?
Ooh, Brussels! 1 Month, 4 Weeks, 3 Hours, 6 Minutes ago
The extent of the EU’s commitment to people’s freedom to buy and sell without barriers could even be extended to marijuana. The European Court of Justice is due to rule on Thursday on whether a Dutch law banning “coffee” shops...
Le système de santé américain, cher et médiocre
La lettre Volée 2 Months, 1 Week, 3 Days, 8 Hours, 44 Minutes ago
Il y a des situations qui ne changent pas. C'était déjà le cas il y a 15 ans, c'est encore vrai en 2010 : le système de santé américain, très largement privatisé, est à la fois le plus couteux et le moins performant.  ...
More of our money spent on adverts
Ooh, Brussels! 2 Months, 1 Week, 3 Days, 18 Hours, 52 Minutes ago
Still waiting for compensation Just as the British government slashes the amount it spends on information and advertising, the EU announces a two-year €1million (about £850,000) campaign putting up posters and handing out leaflets at railway stati...
Congrès Mobilité internationale - La lettre et l'esprit (28 et 29 juin 2010 - Bordeaux)
Regards citoyens 2 Months, 2 Weeks, 8 Minutes ago
Pourquoi veut-on faire de la mobilité internationale « la règle et non plus l’exception » ? Quelles sont les plus-values, constatées ou supposées, d’une expérience de mobilité ? Quel impact sur les parcours é...
Interview: Against medical tourism…
Writing for (y)EU 2 Months, 3 Weeks, 1 Day, 15 Hours, 13 Minutes ago
Towards equal medical treatment. French MEP Bernadette Vergnaud talks about harmonising medical treatments to stop citizens from hospital shopping in other EU countries. Here comes EuroparlTV reportage.
‘Hard-core’ lobbying: “voting recommendations” sent to MEPs on food labelling regulation
EU lobbying - lifting the veil of secrecy 2 Months, 3 Weeks, 5 Days, 18 Hours, 18 Minutes ago
Corporate Europe Observatory (CEO) has collected more than twenty e-mails from industry lobbyists with “voting recommendations” for MEPs ahead of the ENVI committee vote, in March 2010, on the ‘Sommer report’ about the new EU regulation on fo...
Mondiali all'estero: qualcosa in streaming
Nouvelles Bruxelles 2 Months, 4 Weeks, 1 Day, 17 Hours, 54 Minutes ago
Dario Salvelli segnala come poter vedere i Mondiali di Calcio africani in streaming. C'è anche qualcosa per i residenti all'estero: "Purtroppo gli italiani all’estero non potranno vederle e dovranno usare altri streaming come quello della tv...
Fri pasientflyt: ny etappe
Europabloggen.no 2 Months, 4 Weeks, 1 Day, 20 Hours, 8 Minutes ago
Det ekstremt nyttige nettstedet Europalov.no melder at EUs helseministre er enige om forslag til direktiv om pasientrettigheter over landegrensene — altså såkalt fri pasientflyt, som har vært diskutert i EU i årevis. Dette er imidlertid ikk...
Grønt lys til flere pesticidrester i frugt og grøntsager
Folkebevægelsens Fælles Blog 2 Months, 4 Weeks, 1 Day, 21 Hours, 55 Minutes ago
NYT FRA EU-FRONTEN: Et flertal i den ansvarlige embedsmandskomite i Bruxelles har sagt ja til at hæve grænseværdien for sundhedsskadelige pesticidrester - Nyheder / Fødevarer, Sundhed, Søren Søndergaard, Nyt fra EU-fronten...
A propos de la qualité des eaux de baignades
BrainsFeed.eu - Information Européenne 2 Months, 4 Weeks, 2 Days, 2 Hours, 28 Minutes ago
Traditionnellement, à l'aube des vacances d'été, la Commission Européenne publie des informations relatives à la qualité des eaux de baignades. On va donc trouver des informations en différents endroits du site europa.eu, publiées par plusieu...
Well-being Directive Proposal expected with great concern
the Brussel Jungle 3 Months, 7 Hours, 40 Minutes ago
In these times of crisis and general concern for the future, the European Commission has decided to take a positive approach by working on a new Directive aimed at promoting the mental and physical state of Europeans. At the moment the draft proposal...
Rättsäkerhet: Nytt borgerligt haveri
Henrik-Alexandersson.se 3 Months, 12 Hours, 5 Minutes ago
Regeringen föreslår att tull och polis skall få rätt att beslagta lagliga droger. Fast man uttrycker det förstås inte på det sättet. Man säger ännu ej förbjudna droger. Som om det skulle göra någon skillnad?Antingen är saker laglig...
Heja Abrahamsson!
Henrik-Alexandersson.se 3 Months, 1 Day, 7 Hours, 55 Minutes ago
Den moderata riksdagskandidaten Maria Abrahamsson tänker inte rösta på (m) i landstingsvalet.Detta i protest mot att (m) i Stockholms läns landsting har blockerat sprututbytesprojektet för narkotikamissbrukare.Abrahamssons blogg - Nyheter24...
Tobacco on Trial
The European Citizen 3 Months, 1 Day, 22 Hours, 46 Minutes ago
EUobserver has reported that a Belgian Court has referred questions to the European Court concerning a case taken there by anti-smoking campaigners fighting to get a judicial ban on the sale of cigarettes and the collection of tax on their sale. The...
Students, Free Movement, Discrimination and Restrictions: Case C-73/08
EU Law Blog 3 Months, 4 Days, 4 Hours, 7 Minutes ago
The Court of Justice has handed down an important and interesting judgment on the right of a member State to restrict the number of students coming from other member States. In its judgment in Case C-73/08 Nicolas Bressol and others...
The Sad Story of Women Who Abort IVF Babies
The Honeyball Buzz 3 Months, 4 Days, 5 Hours, 29 Minutes ago
This piece “Scandal of aborted IVF babies” appeared on the front page of the Sunday Times today.  It is, in my view, a rather tragic story about women who had undergone IVF treatment, both privately and on the NHS, and subsequently decided not t...
Detta borde få fart på drogdebatten
Henrik-Alexandersson.se 3 Months, 4 Days, 22 Hours, 57 Minutes ago
Sveriges orimliga drogpolitik i ett nötskal.(Tipstack: Liam)...
The Law and Science of Plain Tobacco Packaging
Ideas on Europe 3 Months, 5 Days, 5 Hours, 37 Minutes ago
In a bid to reduce smoking rates, Australia is set to become the first country in the world to introduce plain packaging for cigarettes.
Drogdebatt
Henrik-Alexandersson.se 3 Months, 6 Days, 11 Hours, 35 Minutes ago
I Aftonbladet har Alexander Bard en debattartikel om droger. Han menar att vi måste lära oss skilja på bruk och missbruk.Det skall bli intressant att se om debatten kommer att bli saklig den här gången – eller om allt som vanligt kommer att la...
"Inga stora förändringar behövs efter Lavaldom"
Europabloggen 3 Months, 1 Week, 4 Hours, 59 Minutes ago
Det är inte aktuellt att göra om utstationeringsdirektivet, som innehåller regler för hur arbetare som ska arbeta i ett annat land än sitt eget ska behandlas, menar EU-kommissionen. I en diskussion i EU-parlamentets arbetsmarknadsutskott på ons...
Erasmus : vers un brand-stretching d’une marque de gamme sur la mobilité à une marque-ombrelle ?
Se former à la communication européenne 3 Months, 1 Week, 2 Days, 1 Hour, 20 Minutes ago
Alors que souffle l’esprit « Erasmus » sur la communauté des étudiants depuis plus de 20 ans, le succès du programme d'échange d'étudiants et d'enseignants entre les universités et les grandes écoles européennes semble conduire actuellem...
Can I have one please
England Expects 3 Months, 1 Week, 6 Days, 7 Hours, 26 Minutes ago
A "vibro-acoustic body pillow". Sounds fun don't you think?But I am a little concerned with the editorial policy in Oxfordshire,CHILDREN with impairments can now chill out in a therapeutic room designed specially to stimulate them. What does that mea...
Dreadful populism
England Expects 3 Months, 1 Week, 6 Days, 22 Hours, 25 Minutes ago
The Maltese EU| Commissioner John Dalli is all hot and bothered at the intrangisant attitude of the Bulgarians,“It is a pity that the Bulgarian cabinet has taken such a decision, being apparently driven by populist reasons. I personally would have...
Latest EU passive smoking stuff
England Expects 3 Months, 2 Weeks, 6 Hours, 17 Minutes ago
I will admit to being a little confyused over claims by the EU today about passive smoking,this is what they say,Smoking affects non-smokers too. According to conservative estimates, 79,000 adults, including 19 000 non-smokers, died in the EU-25 in 2...
The regulatory challenge of BPA
Ideas on Europe 3 Months, 2 Weeks, 1 Day, 5 Hours, 21 Minutes ago
The use of Bisphenol A (or BPA) in certain packaging materials such as polycarbonate baby bottles and cans is becoming one of the most controversial issues in food (packaging) safety around the globe. BPA is a chemical building block that is used pri...
EU skabt medicinmonopol giver højere priser
Folkebevægelsens Fælles Blog 3 Months, 2 Weeks, 1 Day, 6 Hours, 52 Minutes ago
NYT FRA EU-FRONTEN: Vi har højere medicinpriser, fordi medicinalindustrien er beskyttet mod konkurrence i EU. - Nyheder / Søren Søndergaard, Nyt fra EU-fronten...
L'Autorité européenne de sécurité des aliments (EFSA)
BrainsFeed.eu - Information Européenne 3 Months, 2 Weeks, 1 Day, 13 Hours, 4 Minutes ago
L'EFSA trouve son origine dans les crises alimentaires qui sont survenues à la fin des années '90 (http://www.efsa.europa.eu/fr/aboutefsa.htm). Son rôle est d'évaluer les risques pas de les gérer. On ne sera donc pas étonné de trouver sur son...
Council conclusions: The role of the EU in global health
CTA Brussels Weblog 3 Months, 2 Weeks, 3 Days, 12 Hours, 40 Minutes ago
As part of its preparation for the UN summit to review MDGs in September 2010, the 3011th Council meeting on Foreign Affairs held in Brussels on 10 May 2010 adopted conclusions on the EU's role in global health, set out in document 9505/10. The Counc...
Que fait l'Europe pour ses malades ?
Le Taurillon 3 Months, 2 Weeks, 3 Days, 14 Hours, 30 Minutes ago
De la Suède à la Pologne en passant par le Portugal et l'Italie, les maladies en Europe sont sensiblement les mêmes. Parallèlement, les systèmes de santé nationaux diffèrent de façon majeure tant en matière de sécurité, que d'efficacité e...
Improved health services for sub-Saharan Africa
CTA Brussels Weblog 3 Months, 3 Weeks, 11 Hours, 50 Minutes ago
People living in sub-Saharan Africa continue to feel the pressure of increasing poverty and morbidity (incidence of specific diseases). Adolescents in particular are at risk of reproductive health problems, and now a new EU-funded project is set to a...
MEPs vote on Organ Donation to save Lives
The Honeyball Buzz 3 Months, 3 Weeks, 1 Day, 10 Hours, 16 Minutes ago
The 56,000 European people in the EU, over 10,000 of whom are in Britain, waiting for organ transplants deserve as good a chance as the rest of us to live a reasonable quality life.  It is nothing short of shocking that in Europe around three people...
En vanlig dag i kolesterolunionen
Henrik-Alexandersson.se 3 Months, 3 Weeks, 1 Day, 11 Hours, 31 Minutes ago
I dagens mailskörd här i Europaparlamentet noterar jag speciellt inbjudan till en trerätters lunch med vin för att diskutera problemet med medborgerlig fetma.Härom veckan noterade vi att det pågick en champagnebjudning mot hemlöshet - vil...
The Dark Side of Mother’s Day
The Honeyball Buzz 3 Months, 3 Weeks, 2 Days, 10 Hours, 19 Minutes ago
Mother’s Day fell this year in Belgium on 9th May.  Dutch MEP Sophia in ‘t Veld, who is the President of the European Parliament working group on reproductive health, HIV/AIDS and development (EPWG), used Mother’s Day as a way of
Fosterland!
Henrik-Alexandersson.se 3 Months, 3 Weeks, 3 Days, 7 Hours, 27 Minutes ago
Folkhälsoinstitutet vill förbjuda rökning utomhus och Almedalen spolar kröken.
Sensurile unei identităţi româneşti
Casa Europei Cluj-Napoca 3 Months, 3 Weeks, 5 Days, 14 Hours, 14 Minutes ago
Faptul că despre Diaspora românească încep să apară studii academice este benefic. Ceea ce a realizat Carmen Banţa prin lansarea recentă a “Studiului de caz – Migraţia românilor în Belgia (Bruxelles)” este o confirmare că există o...
Postkort mod EU-forslag om usunde fødevarer
Folkebevægelsens Fælles Blog 3 Months, 3 Weeks, 6 Days, 9 Hours, 43 Minutes ago
NYT FRA EU-FRONTEN: Skriv postkort til EU-parlamentarikere via Forbrugerrådets hjemmeside - Nyheder / Fødevarer, Sundhed, Søren Søndergaard, Nyt fra EU-fronten...
Connaissez-vous les additifs alimentaires?
BrainsFeed.eu - Information Européenne 4 Months, 1 Day, 5 Hours, 42 Minutes ago
Une très grande majorité des consommateurs ignorent tout des additifs alimentaires et autres colorants. Pourtant, ils sont dans quasi tous les aliments et ils devraient être mentionnés sur les emballages. Vous ne serez pas surpris de lire que l'U...
Hårdare tag mot djurplågeri
Europabloggen 4 Months, 4 Days, 20 Hours, 53 Minutes ago
Skadlig antibiotika i djurfoder har minskat men fortfarande behövs fler inspektioner för att kontrollera att djurskyddslagstiftningen efterföljs, det har EU-parlamentet slagit fast.Under onsdagens diskussion i EU-parlamentet om de nya reglerna fö...
Europees Parlement roept op tot Welzijnswet voor dieren
GroenLinks Europa 4 Months, 5 Days, 45 Minutes ago
Het Europees Parlement heeft een rapport aangenomen dat oproept tot een welzijnswet voor dieren. Dieren krijgen dan het expliciete recht op een levenswaardig bestaan. De Europese Commissie moet de levensomstandigheden van dieren hoog op de agenda pla...
Mieux vaut prvenir que guérir
BrainsFeed.eu - Information Européenne 4 Months, 5 Days, 6 Hours, 7 Minutes ago
Tel est le leitmotiv de la nouvelle stratégie de santé animale de l'Union Européenne. Il s'agit d'un programme qui s'étend de 2007 à 2013 et qui est une réaction aux quelques problèmes importants qui ont marqués le début du siècle, comme le...
EU under fire over 'broken promises' on health aid
CTA Brussels Weblog 4 Months, 3 Weeks, 5 Days, 1 Hour, 10 Minutes ago
European governments must devote 0.1% of their income to providing universal healthcare in the developing world, according to campaigners who accuse EU leaders of failing to prioritise the Millennium Development Goals (MDGs). With the 2015 deadline f...
The Times They Are a-Changin’
The Lobby 5 Months, 4 Days, 16 Hours, 3 Minutes ago
On 1 April, after more than a year of rumours hinting at Robert Madelin leaving the helm of the European Commission’s Health and Consumers DG (DG SANCO) (he held the position for six years despite the fact that Director-Generals are expected to mov...
Zwangsrabatt als Allheilmittel!?
Karpfenteich 5 Months, 1 Week, 5 Days, 8 Hours, 48 Minutes ago
Bundesgesundheitsminister Dr. Philipp Rösler hat am 26. März 2010 seine Pläne zur Reform des Arzneimittelmarktes vorgestellt. Darin wurden kurzfristige Zwangsmaßnahmen zur Senkung der Arzneimittelausgaben angekündigt. Dies geschah unerwartet...
Mobilităţile europene prioritare?
Casa Europei Cluj-Napoca 5 Months, 2 Weeks, 1 Day, 12 Hours, 50 Minutes ago
De mai bine de 10 ani, la nivel european, are loc reforma academică prin “Procesul Bologna”. În urma analizei realizate zilele trecute la Budapesta şi Viena, concluzia este că obiectivele iniţiale nu au fost încă atinse. Se vorbeşte acum...
Is this why the Government is moving on drink driving limits?
England Expects 5 Months, 3 Weeks, 3 Days, 9 Hours, 29 Minutes ago
One tried and tested method by which the EU moves, and by which that movement is kept stealthy is that the Government announces an action, without mentioning that that action has either been demanded, requested or otherwise pre-ordained by the EU.The...
Osteoporosis – the silent disease
The Honeyball Buzz 5 Months, 3 Weeks, 3 Days, 13 Hours ago
Together with Anja Weisgerber MEP, Co-Chair with me of the Osteoporosis Interest Group in the European Parliament,  I was very pleased yesterday to host a special osteoporosis event in the European Parliament. Organised by the International Oste...
Angles, Saxons, Inequality, and Educational Mobility in England and Germany
Social Europe 5 Months, 3 Weeks, 3 Days, 15 Hours, 50 Minutes ago
Good politics has always seen well-funded, public provision of education as a vital pathway to delivering the Good Society. This article draws on recent evidence from Germany and the UK to show that even in more equal societies, such as Germany, atte...
Would Ryanair healthcare really be that bad?
Jason O'Mahony 5 Months, 3 Weeks, 4 Days, 17 Hours, 19 Minutes ago
During the Lisbon referendum, one of the posters put up by those mysterious foriegn backed No campaigns was “No to Ryanair healthcare”. The phrase stuck in my head. Would Ryanair healthcare be that bad? I don’t like Ryanair. I like...
A new era in eHealth
Neelie Kroes 5 Months, 3 Weeks, 5 Days, 3 Hours, 23 Minutes ago
This afternoon in a speech in Barcelona marking eHealth Week, I called on the eHealth industry, health professionals and national health Ministers to “move up a gear” in order to deliver eHealth for all. Improving eHealth systems is one o...
No Cancer Drugs for Bulgarian Kids
European Union Law 5 Months, 4 Weeks, 16 Hours, 10 Minutes ago
I became recently aware of a really worrying problem: it appears that the Bulgarian National Health Insurance Fund (NHIF) has stopped the delivery of some drugs against cancer for children under 18 years. Let me repeat: we don’t deliver some drugs...
Moving to Brussels, Part 2
Gulf Stream Blues 6 Months, 2 Weeks, 21 Hours, 21 Minutes ago
Well it’s official – I signed the lease for a studio apartment in the St. Catherine area of Brussels yesterday. Flat-hunting turned out to be relatively painless. I looked at some really nice places. It’s insane how cheap rent is in Brussels, i...
Council waters down conclusions on researchers mobility
Julien Frisch 7 Months, 3 Days, 9 Hours, 47 Minutes ago
I have already commented on the first draft of the "Council conclusions on mobility and career of European researchers" in January and my verdict was very negative. But now the Council plans to water down the issue I thought was one of the most impo...
REACH list of dangerous chemicals doubled
CTA Brussels Weblog 7 Months, 5 Days, 12 Hours, 50 Minutes ago
The European Chemicals Agency (ECHA) has added 14 substances to the list of  "very high concern" chemicals to undergo special health and safety scrutiny under the bloc's chemical regulation REACH. The identification of a substance of very high c...
EU-Raucherjagd läuft ins Leere
Holger Krahmer (MEP) 7 Months, 1 Week, 3 Days, 15 Hours, 52 Minutes ago
Schauprozesse, Raucher-Polizei, Aschenbecherverbot und schmerzhafte Geldstrafen - die EU-Pläne zur Durchsetzung des Nichtraucherschutzes lassen die Wogen der Empörung hochschlagen. Doch die drakonischen Maßnahmen werden sich kaum umsetzen lassen.
Right wing methods to deliver left wing aims.
Jason O'Mahony 7 Months, 1 Week, 3 Days, 22 Hours, 32 Minutes ago
The National Treatment Purchase Fund is one of Mary Harney’s successes as minister for health, and yet here is an example of a hospital refusing to work with it to reduce the suffering of patients. Why? Many opponents of the NTPF are opposed...
“Civil contingencies 2010″: the experts and suppliers tackling tomorrows threats
NeoConOpticon: Notes on the EUropean security research programme 7 Months, 1 Week, 4 Days, 19 Hours, 42 Minutes ago
The Civil Contingencies 2010 conference was held in London earlier this week. It featured “20 expert speakers” and “numerous carefully selected suppliers” in the business of preparing for “major disruptions”. The d...
Diskriminering saboterar fri rörlighet i EU
Grahnblawg 7 Months, 2 Weeks, 4 Days, 1 Hour, 5 Minutes ago
Sedan EEC-fördraget 1957 har fri rörlighet för personer varit en av de viktigaste målsättningarna inom den europeiska integrationen. Lika länge har all diskriminering på grund av nationalitet varit förbjuden. Direktivet 2004/38 om unionsmedb...
Discrimination frustrates free movement in the EU
Grahnlaw 7 Months, 2 Weeks, 4 Days, 2 Hours, 20 Minutes ago
The free movement of people has been an aim since the 1957 EEC Treaty. Discrimination on grounds of nationality has been prohibited for as long. Directive 2004/38 on the right of the citizens of the (European) Union and their family members to move a...
Freedom of Movement – Yes, but…
Kosmopolito 7 Months, 2 Weeks, 4 Days, 14 Hours, 9 Minutes ago
I had a very interesting discussion on twitter with @npanayotopoulos, @EULondonRep and @MiaLeenaSofia about EU mobility and practical obstacles when moving around Europe. If you are a regular reader of this blog you are probably aware of the fact th...
Moving on up
Talking about the EU 7 Months, 2 Weeks, 4 Days, 15 Hours, 13 Minutes ago
Just had a discussion on Twitter with @npanayotopoulos and @kosmopolit about the problems faced when someone moved from one European country to another. Moving to the UK, you are often required to provide referees to rent – how do you get those...
Cameron: My butler is committed to using the NHS.
Jason O'Mahony 7 Months, 3 Weeks, 3 Days, 21 Hours, 25 Minutes ago
Conservative Party leader David Cameron MP has stressed the Tory party committment to the NHS by stressing that his butler would use nothing else. ” Whether Jennings has his hand severed operating a spinning jenny, or loses a eye reloading a bl...
Dalli hat es allen recht gemacht
Holger Krahmer (MEP) 7 Months, 3 Weeks, 4 Days, 12 Hours, 50 Minutes ago
Patienten- und Verbraucherrechte standen im Mittelpunkt der Anhörung des designierten Kommissars für Gesundheit und Verbraucherschutz John Dalli. Der gesundheitspolitische Sprecher Holger Krahmer bleibt dennoch skeptisch: „Einerseits ist es erfre...
Was swine flu a hoax?
Gulf Stream Blues 7 Months, 3 Weeks, 6 Days, 16 Hours, 34 Minutes ago
European health ministers are set to hold an emergency inquiry into whether pharmaceutical companies influenced government decisions to purchase vast stockpiles of unnecessary swine flu vaccines. The inquiry comes as European governments have announc...
Advice from the Red Cross and others
Stephen Spillane 8 Months, 1 Day, 7 Hours, 44 Minutes ago
Image via Wikipedia The Red Cross have issued some First Aid and Safety Advice for the weather conditions that are affected most of the country. Cork City saw snow last night for the first time and the weather is not set to get better. In fact it...
Securitising disease: swine flu panic and emergency preparedness
NeoConOpticon: Notes on the EUropean security research programme 8 Months, 3 Days, 1 Hour, 26 Minutes ago
Despite a waning of the initial hysteria and expert studies suggesting that the H1N1 pandemic may not be as bad as feared, security consultants like SRA continue to argue that the situation is likely to get worse before it gets better. Here’s...
Europe view no 165
Edward Lucas (The Economist) 8 Months, 4 Days, 2 Hours, 4 Minutes ago
Europe.view Steamy scenesDec 30th 2009 From Economist.comBracing northern habits reach south-west LondonYOUR columnist has recently moved house. Although his new garden is small, it does have enough room for a small hut, painted black and concealed b...
Szczepionki przeciw grypie. Minister Kopacz miała rację?
blogUE (Gazeta Wyborcza) 8 Months, 5 Days, 6 Hours, 2 Minutes ago
Nie jestem specjalistą od spraw zdrowotnych. Moja ocena może być powierzchowna i z gruntu błędna. ( Ok., napisałem to). Ale informacje, które zaczynają napływać z całej Europy, coraz mocniej sugerują, że polska minister zdrowia Ewa Kopac...
Gör inte som vi gör - utan som vi säger!
Henrik-Alexandersson.se 8 Months, 5 Days, 8 Hours, 37 Minutes ago
Det råder rökförbud på i princip alla myndigheter och i så gott som hela den statliga förvaltningen.Men inte i riksdagen.Nyheter24...
Acces aux professions juridiques dans un autre état membre
Quoi de neuf en Europe 8 Months, 2 Weeks, 3 Days, 58 Minutes ago
Normal 0 21 Afin de faciliter l’application des...
European Union: Occupational safety and health
Grahnlaw 8 Months, 3 Weeks, 3 Days, 7 Hours, 59 Minutes ago
It is very well to rave about the cost of EU regulation for the business sector of country X, but one may ask forgiveness for wishing for more nuanced views at times. First of all, if all enterprises in the European Union and the rest of the European...
Living in the EU: Maintenance obligations
Grahnlaw 8 Months, 3 Weeks, 3 Days, 12 Hours, 1 Minute ago
Basically the nation states have made laws for domestic situations, but people are more versatile than that. They conduct business and live their lives across borders. For instance, about eight million EU citizens live in another member state than th...
EU Bells Are Ringing
leonjwilliams.wordpress.com, 8 Months, 3 Weeks, 6 Days, 7 Hours, 31 Minutes ago
E vremea propice sa fim mai buni si mai generosi
Menaru 8 Months, 4 Weeks, 1 Day, 10 Hours, 17 Minutes ago
Spun asta citind povestea unui pusti de 9 ani care are o tumoare intracraniana maligna si care face un tratament, a suferit si o operatie, care costa 45.000 de euro. Pentru noi, oamenii obisnuiti, este o suma mare, dar picatura cu picatura se poate a...
Riktiga moderater
Henrik-Alexandersson.se 9 Months, 1 Day, 15 Hours, 39 Minutes ago
Fria Moderata Studentförbundetpå Politikerbloggen: Avveckla Folkhälsoinstitutet!
Campaign against EU ban on herbal medicine
Open Europe blog 9 Months, 2 Days, 18 Hours, 1 Minute ago
Today, a campaign to 'save herbal medicine' was launched. Campaigners are calling on the Government to prevent herbal medicines disappearing from the high street when an EU ban comes into place in April 2011.Save Herbal Medicine fears that much of t...
Europäische Gesundheitsminister lassen Patienten im Stich
Holger Krahmer (MEP) 9 Months, 1 Week, 15 Hours, 59 Minutes ago
Die EU Gesundheitsminister haben auf Ihrer Ratssitzung keine Einigung über die Richtlinie zur Patientenmobilität erzielt. “Damit haben die Gesundheitsminister europäische Patienten im Stich gelassen”, so Holger Krahmer, gesundheitspolitischer...
Farvel til Patientdirektivet!
Folkebevægelsens Fælles Blog 9 Months, 1 Week, 18 Hours, 12 Minutes ago
Det kontroversielle Patientdirektiv er blevet lagt på is på ubestemt tid efter at EU-medlemsstaterne opgav at nå til enighed på ministerrådsmødet tirsdag den 1. december - Nyheder / Sundhed, Søren Søndergaard, Kort nyt...