At their informal meeting on Friday 28 July in Las Palmas de Gran Canaria, Spain, the EU health ministers defined the basic principles for building open strategic autonomy in the EU in the field of medicines and medical devices.
“The ministers undertook to work together to build this Europe of health”, José Manuel Miñones, the Spanish minister who chaired the meeting, told the press.
Mr Miñones pointed out that the Covid-19 pandemic had shown that centralised vaccine purchasing was...