On 30 January, EPHA organised an event at the European Parliament, together with Changing Markets Foundation and the European Environmental Bureau, to discuss synergies between the available policy measures for tackling pharmaceuticals in the environment (PiE) and...
The EU has passed the next milestone in the process of adopting its budget for the post 2020 period following the completion of a complex public consultation on the Multiannual Financial Framework (MFF). Given the cross-cutting nature of health, in its response EPHA...
The UN Convention on the Rights of the Child, ratified by all European Union (EU) countries and used by the European Commission to guide its actions,[1] provides that “In all actions concerning children … the best interests of the child shall be a primary...
2017 brought some significant developments in food, drink and agriculture policy at the European level, and 2018 promises to be just as eventful. Below EPHA identifies five policy areas where further policy developments are anticipated: 1. CAP on the back foot The...
As the Eurobubble gears up for an epic fight over the next EU budget, let’s look at what EU spending does, or doesn’t do, for our health…and what it should deliver in future. First, a reality check. The EU budget sounds like a vast amount of money, but compared...
The high-level Multi-Stakeholder Platform on the Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs), a new forum bringing together NGOs – including EPHA -, trade unions, representatives of regional and local government and the corporate sector, set up to support and advise...
