On Thursday 3 April, Members of the European Parliament once again called on the European Commission to present a ‘European action plan on rare diseases’, which affect 30 million people in the EU(see EUROPE B13590A8).
The European Commissioner for Health, Olivér Várhelyi, acknowledged in plenary that the EU needed to do more in these areas, without saying whether or not he would present such an action plan.
The plenary debate showed “the limits of what we can do” in terms of the...