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  • 1 month ago | politico.eu | Mari Eccles |Rory O’Neill |Giovanna Coi

    The European Commission will stop hard-up health NGOs from accessing funding for lobbying or advocacy work because of the “reputational risk” to the European Union. The Commission — under pressure from right-wing lawmakers to push for more NGO funding transparency — already told green civil society organizations last year that they could no longer use EU funding to lobby the bloc’s institutions. Now it is saying the same to some health NGOs, many of which represent the interests of patients.

  • 2 months ago | politico.eu | Rory O’Neill |Helen Collis |Claudia Chiappa |Mari Eccles

    Belgium was the architect of a European plan to tackle chronic drug shortages. But it views the EU's long-awaited fix announced Tuesday as a letdown. Even before the European Commission presented its Critical Medicines Act — which focuses on an overhaul of procurement rules and subsidies to boost domestic drugs production — the country's health minister lamented that the proposal “does not meet the gravity” of Europe’s supply crisis.

  • Jan 7, 2025 | politico.eu | Rory O’Neill

    France has reported its first case of the new mpox variant, the county's public health agency announced today, bringing the total number of EU cases to eight. The individual, located in Brittany, had been in contact with two people who had recently returned from Central Africa. French authorities said they were working to identify all contacts. Sweden, Germany, Belgium and the U.K. have all reported cases, although there have been no major outbreaks outside Africa.

  • Dec 5, 2024 | politico.eu | Rory O’Neill

    Israel is committing genocide against the Palestinians in Gaza, a landmark report from Amnesty International published Thursday concluded, the organization’s first such determination during an active armed conflict. The report, which analyzed interviews with 212 people, alongside satellite imagery, visual evidence and statements by Israeli officials, found Israel’s actions in the wake of the Oct.

  • Nov 10, 2024 | politico.eu | Rory O’Neill

    LONDON — Of all the horrors that Manchester-based surgeon Ammar Darwish has seen in Gaza, one of the very worst is the trauma a year of Israeli bombardment has inflicted on the children. “It will go to their kids and to their grandkids … it does not go away,” he told POLITICO. On the wards of Gaza’s hospitals, Darwish saw children shivering at the sound of jets overhead. They know what that sound means.

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