Joint Crisis-Response: Towards a European Health Union
Joint Crisis-Response: Towards a European Health Union

Author(s): Jolanta Szymańska
Subject(s): Politics, International relations/trade, Welfare systems, Health and medicine and law, EU-Accession / EU-DEvelopment
Published by: PISM Polski Instytut Spraw Międzynarodowych
Keywords: Europe; health union; crisis; response; health policy;
Summary/Abstract: The European Commission (EC) presented a package of legislative proposals initiating the creation of a European Health Union. The proposals seek to strengthen crisis management in the face of cross-border health threats, including institutional reforms in the area of health. They do not prejudice the competences of the Member States as defined in the Treaties but are an incentive for closer cooperation in the field of health at the EU level. In the long run, this may pave the way for a revision of the competences of the EU and states in health policy.

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