Ursula von der Leyen announced, on Tuesday 26 January, that the European Commission, which she chairs, would propose the creation of a permanent “bio-defence preparedness programme” based on a public-private partnership, in order to best anticipate any new pandemic.
This programme, she said during her speech via videoconference at the Davos summit, will be based on “three main pillars”: - this ongoing programme will be fully dedicated to discovering (and preparing for) known and...