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Europe Daily Bulletin No. 11509

11 March 2016
Contents Publication in full By article 16 / 33
EUROPEAN PARLIAMENT PLENARY / (ae) health
Commission rejects idea of thalidomide fund

Brussels, 10/03/2016 (Agence Europe) - There is currently no prospect for compensating thalidomide victims at a European level. On Wednesday 9 March, Commissioner Vytenis Andriukaitis (Health and Food Safety) responded to MEPs by informing them that the European Commission did not have the scope to set up such an instrument. He is calling on MEPs to exert pressure on their respective governments.

Thalidomide is a medicine that was marketed at the end of the 1950s and the beginning of the...

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