Therefore, public health should be central to the EU’s financial future. This means stepping up of EU investments in better health -not pollution, strengthening health safeguards and performance, and ...

The European Parliament can play a key role in boosting actions to tackle AMR at EU level. The MEP Interest Group on AMR offers a unique opportunity to address AMR, which not only directly affects the ...

The evidence is clear: unhealthy food marketing affects what children eat and ultimately, their health and well-being. European health, consumer, child, and family organisations call on the EU to ...

The AMR Stakeholder Network brings together more than 60 leading organisations and individuals committed to tackling Antimicrobial Resistance (AMR) at national, regional and European level, covering ...

The precautionary principle – which calls for preventive action in the face of scientific uncertainty – must be the guiding star of the European Commission’s response to PFAS. Given the growing body ...

On brake pollution, conventional internal combustion engine (ICE) cars mainly use disc brakes to slow the car down, which emits particle pollution. In contrast, EVs use “regenerative braking” as it ...

Superbugs cost the life of nearly 90 people every day in the EU and the EEA¹. A serious threat to patient safety, AMR crosses national borders and endangers many healthcare interventions, including ...

As part of the European Commission’s Roma Strategic Framework for Equality, Inclusion and Participation, every European member state (except for Malta) is required to implement a National Roma ...

Since the start of the COVID-19 pandemic in Europe in March 2020, the issue of health has risen considerably up the European political agenda, making the EU’s 2019-2024 mandate an essential guide for ...

Food environments shape what food we buy and eat. Food environments are the physical, economic, political and socio-cultural contexts in which people engage with the food system to make their ...

Following the so-called «migration crisis» over the last five years, the EU has chosen to perceive migration as a threat, and has focused its efforts on securing its borders, increasingly depending on ...

The emergence of COVID-19 as a public health emergency by the World Health Organization has led to a number of precautionary measures such as quarantines, social distancing or in some cases total ...