Press release - Parliament wants a European Health Union

Published on July 10, 2020

COVID-19 has highlighted the need to give the EU a far stronger role in the area of health, MEPs say in a resolution on the EU’s future public health strategy.
Committee on the Environment, Public Health and Food Safety

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