The European Union is not yet prepared for the smooth management of serious cross-border threats to health, says the European Court of Auditors in a special report published on Thursday 8 December (Special Report No. 28/2016). The ECA says that while tools exist, they are implemented far too slowly.
The 80-page document looks at the European Union’s levels of preparedness rather than actual management of crises in the past (H1N1 in 2009 or e.coli in 2011). The European Court of...