EU Strategy to Fight Cancer

Kids Beating Cancer

The European Parliament has adopted its final recommendations for a comprehensive and coordinated EU strategy to fight cancer. The report by Parliament’s Special Committee on Beating Cancer (BECA) was adopted with 652 votes in favour, 15 against and 27 abstentions on Wednesday. As more than 40% of all cancers are preventable through “coordinated actions targeting…

Parliament Approves Ukraine Loan

Aid for Ukraine

MEPs have given the green light to a €1.2 billion macro-financial loan to help Ukraine cover its external financing needs in 2022. Parliament agreed to an EC proposal to provide Kyiv with an emergency resource for EU neighbourhood countries struggling to pay their bills. It will be paid out in two instalments. Half of the…

Commission Purchase of COVID-19 Vaccines

EU Purchase of Pfizer vaccines

Early this year, the Commission announced it will buy 1.8 billion additional Pfizer Covid-19 vaccine doses. This made Pfizer the EU’s most important vendor. The deal was clinched via calls and text messages between the company’s CEO and the president of the European Commission. Left group Co-President Manon Aubry is seeking to put on the agenda of…

African Union-European Union Summit

African Union European Union Summit

Civil society organisations are indispensable bridge builders between the EU and Africa On the eve of the African Union (AU)-European Union (EU) Summit (17-18 February 2022), and awaiting the conclusions of the Summit, Christa Schweng, EESC President, declared:“I deeply regret that the two consultative bodies of the European Union and the African Union, the European…