The European Commission adopted, on Wednesday 7 June, a communication on a “comprehensive approach to mental health” containing a number of concrete initiatives and actions to tackle the problems associated with mental health.
Before the Covid-19 pandemic, mental health problems already affected around 84 million people in the EU, a situation which has worsened over the past years with a cost of non-action amounting to €600 billion every year, or more than 4% of the EU’s gross...