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Europe Daily Bulletin No. 10298
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GENERAL NEWS / (eu) ep/health

Support for compromise on cross-border healthcare

Brussels, 20/01/2011 (Agence Europe) - Following the recommendation of its rapporteur, French UMP MEP Françoise Grossetête, the European Parliament gave its approval, in Strasbourg on Wednesday 19 January, to the compromise on cross-border healthcare negotiated with the Council. The text consolidates, and provides clarification on some points of patients' rights as recognised by European Court of Justice rulings. By no stretch of the imagination, however, can this be called a major step...

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