The European Parliament has not given up on its idea of seeking compensation for the thalidomide victims. In a non-legislative resolution adopted on Thursday 15 December, it called on the German government to take the opportunity of the review in its law on the thalidomide foundation planned for January 2017 to introduce this kind of mechanism for all European victims.
Thalidomide is the name of medicines marketed at the end of the 1950s to relieve morning sickness among pregnant women,...