by EPHA | Sep 12, 2016 | European Institutions
Ahead of the informal EU Summit on 16 September in Bratislava, the European Public Health Alliance has joined 176 other European and national civil society organisations and trade unions to make a common statement on the future of Europe. As Europe stands at a...
by EPHA | Jul 7, 2016 | European Institutions
By Nina Renshaw, Secretary General, EPHA @ninawren Violent storms hit Brussels during the night of Thursday last week. The mood was similarly dark, tense and tempestuous throughout the day when the British went to the polls for a once-in-a-generation vote on whether...
by Zoltán Massay-Kosubek | May 3, 2016 | European Institutions, Trade for health | Analysis & Opinion
EPHA believes that greater transparency is vital to ensure proper democratic and public debate about the impact of trade policy on population health, following Greenpeace Netherlands’ release of classified TTIP negotiating documents By Zoltán Massay-Kosubek, Policy...
by EPHA | Apr 25, 2016 | European Institutions
Trilogues have de facto become a routine final step of the decision making process where critical decisions are reached with decisive impacts on the stringency or effectiveness of legislation. Their behind-closed-doors nature weakens accountability and trust in the...
by Sascha Marschang | Mar 27, 2016 | European Institutions
By Sascha Marschang, Policy Manager, EPHA The latest terrorist attacks in Europe, combined with big political question marks hanging over the UK, Turkey and elsewhere, are contributing to the general malaise felt by many Europeans – uncertainty and distress as a...
by EPHA | Mar 2, 2016 | European Institutions, Health Inequalities
The MSF report, ’Obstacles Course to Europe’ comes at a particularly timely moment as EU countries including Sweden, Germany and Austria, which in 2015 received high numbers of asylum claims, have reinstated border controls with neighbouring states to significantly...
