In response to the Covid-19 pandemic and in anticipation of future health crises, the EU will establish a Health Emergency Preparedness and Response Authority (HERA) modelled on the United States’ BARDA. This is what the European Commission announced last November (see EUROPE B12600A24).
In the coming days, we will know a little more about the form this authority will take: the president of the institution, Ursula von der Leyen, is expected to address the subject during her State of the...