Ensuring patients’ rights in cross-border healthcare: the new Commission’s directive
As part of the Renewed Social Agenda, the Commission adopted on 2 July 2008 a proposal for a directive to facilitate the application of European patients' rights in relation to cross-border healthcare, as well as a Communication on improving co-operation between...
Enhancing transparency in Cohesion Policy
DG Regional Policy has launched a website indicating regions that have published lists of beneficiaries, as they are required to do in line with new communication requirements for Cohesion Policy over the 2007-2013 programming period. This is part of a Commission...
Granting targeted aid: the Commission releases the new General Block Exemption Regulation, GBER
The European Commission has adopted a Regulation, which will come into force in the coming weeks, giving automatic approval for a range of aid measures that allow Member States to grant such aid without first notifying the Commission. The Regulation authorises aid in...
HEAL/EUREGHA Conference: “Climate change and the challenges for public health: engaging the regions”
The European Regional Local Health Authorities and the Health and Environment Alliance (HEAL) in collaboration with Veneto Region and North West England organised a conference on “Climate change and the challenges for public health: engaging the regions” that took...
French Presidency: what is at stake
On the occasion of the breakfast policy briefing organised by the European Policy Centre (EPC) and focused on the French Presidency's priorities, the French Permanent Representative to the EU, Mr Pierre Sellal, outlined the major issues at stake for the second half of...
The EU Health Commissioner Vassiliou launches “The European Pact for Mental Health and Well-Being”
On the occasion of the "EU High-Level Conference on Mental Health", EU Health Commissioner Vassiliou together with the Slovenian Presidency and the World Health Organisation Regional Office for Europe launched "The European Pact for Mental Health and Well-Being". The...
Preventing childood obesity: EPODE Mayors’ Club European Event, 27 June 2008
In the fight against childhood obesity, regional and local authorities have a significant role to play. This is the key massage addressed in the occasion of the EPODE Mayors’ Club European Event that will be held in Brussels on 27 June 2008.The EPODE Mayors’ Club aims...
ERLAI Seminar on Health and Migration, 12 June 2008
On 12 June 2008, ERLAI organised a seminar centred on “Health and Migration” in order to explore how the issue is undertaken by different actors such as: the European Commission, the International Organisation for Migration (IOM); and the European Regional and Local...
EU authorises a pre-pandemic vaccine for humans against bird flue
Following a positive opinion from the European Medicines Agency (EMEA ) in February 2008, the Commission last week granted market authorisation for Prepandrix™ - the first pre-pandemic vaccine for humans against influenza caused by the H5N1 virus.
EPSCO meeting on 9-10 June 2008
EPSCO (Employment, Social Policy, Health and Consumer affairs) is a European Council formation, whose regular meetings take place a maximum of four times per year. On the first day of its meeting, EPSCO usually focuses on employment, social policy and consumer...
EMCDDA launches a best practice portal
The European Monitoring Centre for Drugs and Drug Addiction (EMCDDA) launched its new Internet portal on best practice in the areas of drug-related prevention, treatment, harm reduction and social reintegration. The portal aims at representing a resource for...
Eurofund issues “Working conditions of an ageing workforce”
The European Foundation for the Improvement of Living and Working Conditions issued a report entitled "Working conditions of an ageing workforce", which looks at ways in which the quality of work and employment can be promoted.
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