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Europe Daily Bulletin No. 12489

19 May 2020
Contents Publication in full By article 17 / 30
SECTORAL POLICIES / Health
Vaccines against Covid-19, pharmaceutical industry rejects idea of a public licence
Brussels, 18/05/2020 (Agence Europe)

As the 73rd World Health Assembly opened on Monday 18 May, several organisations argued that the future vaccine developed to fight Covid-19 should not be protected by a patent that would give a monopoly to the big pharmaceutical groups. 

Asked by EUROPE about this issue at an online conference organised by the European Policy Centre (EPC), Bart van Zijll Langhout, Vice-President of Strategic Alliances EMEA & Janssen, speaking on behalf of Johnson & Johnson, rejected the idea: "We all agree...

Contents

EU RESPONSE TO COVID-19
ECONOMY: Berlin and Paris call for a post-Covid-19 European Recovery Fund allowing €500 billion in budget transfers
HEALTH: EMA recommends modelling needs to avoid a vaccine war
HEALTH: EU calls for an investigation into management of Covid-19 epidemic
EDUCATION: schools are gradually reopening across EU without too many difficulties, say EU ministers
INTERNAL MARKET: Mr Breton sees possibility of partial relocation of certain health-related production to EU
ENERGY: post-Covid-19 recovery plan could include a “European Renovation Financing Facility”, according to Commission
STATE AID: differences in state aid distort single market, worries Margrethe Vestager
TRANSPORT: publication of additional EASA guidelines on air passenger safety imminent
CITIZENSHIP: Covid-19, only 10,000 Europeans remain to be repatriated with EU aid
SECTORAL POLICIES
FOOD: twenty-seven initiatives to be advocated by Commission on 20 May as part of ‘Farm to Fork’ strategy
COHESION: third pillar of European Just Transition Mechanism becomes clearer
TRANSPORT: European Parliament committee will vote on more than 80 amendments to ‘mobility package I’ at beginning of June
HOME AFFAIRS: MEPs prepare to criticise Member States for lack of coordination in Schengen
MIGRATION: Pact on Asylum and Migration will not be presented “before early summer”, says Ylva Johansson
FISHERIES: European Parliament Committee on Fisheries regrets lack of progress in EU/UK negotiations
ENVIRONMENT/CLIMATE: 'farm to fork' strategy and 'biodiversity 2030', NGOs set out conditions for their effectiveness
HEALTH: vaccines against Covid-19, pharmaceutical industry rejects idea of a public licence
ECONOMY - FINANCE - BUSINESS
BANKS: European Parliament starts work on temporary relief of prudential requirements for banks
ECOFIN: anti-Covid-19 economic measures, tackling money laundering and 'European Semester' on EU ministers’ agenda
EXTERNAL ACTION
SUDAN: EU co-organising international conference in Brussels on 25 June to support Sudan's political transition
TURKEY: EU denounces new suspensions of mayors
AFGHANISTAN: EU and NATO welcome power-sharing agreement
TRADE: trade in metallurgical products, Commission is equipping itself with a more effective surveillance system
NEWS BRIEFS
ALBANIA: demolition of national theatre, EU regrets lack of dialogue
FINANCE: six Member States lift their bans on short selling
HUNGARY: Hungarian Parliament will vote on 26 May to lift emergency measures related to pandemic
DIGITAL: United States returns to offensive against Huawei
TOURISM: Five Star Movement MEPs call for rejection of ‘tourism corridors’ between Member States
Op-Ed
Op-ED: Relaunching the EU as a climate democracy based on a climate social security system, Suzana Carp, Head of EU Engagement, Sandbag
Kiosk
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