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The EU has unveiled new plans to guarantee critical medicine supplies in a bid to protect the bloc from shortages (Photo: Freestocks.org)

Joint procurement and subsidies announced to avoid EU medicine shortages

The EU will create ‘strategic projects’ and make more use of joint procurement to protect the bloc from severe shortages of key medicines, and loosen state subsidy rules to do so, the European Commission has announced. 

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Benjamin Fox is a seasoned reporter and editor, previously working for fellow Brussels publication Euractiv. His reporting has also been published in the Guardian, the East African, Euractiv, Private Eye and Africa Confidential, among others. He heads up the AU-EU section at EUobserver, based in Nairobi, Kenya.

The EU has unveiled new plans to guarantee critical medicine supplies in a bid to protect the bloc from shortages (Photo: Freestocks.org)

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Author Bio

Benjamin Fox is a seasoned reporter and editor, previously working for fellow Brussels publication Euractiv. His reporting has also been published in the Guardian, the East African, Euractiv, Private Eye and Africa Confidential, among others. He heads up the AU-EU section at EUobserver, based in Nairobi, Kenya.

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