The European Parliament launched its revised EU pharmaceutical package in the first quarter of 2023. The fragmentation of EU health research and development, a lack of transparency and a disparity between public investment and clinical output are among the weaknesses identified. Possible solutions include the creation of a large-scale European biomedical infrastructure, and a series of targeted strategies to improve the coordination of EU health research and reprioritise areas of healthcare with unmet therapeutic needs.

Towards a new EU pharmaceutical strategy - English

As the European Commission prepares to launch a much awaited revised EU pharmaceutical strategy, two recent studies by the European Parliament's Panel for the Future of Science and Technology (STOA) advance possible options to tackle current weaknesses in drug development and ensure access to high-quality medicines, including the creation of large-scale European biomedical infrastructure, and a series of targeted strategies to improve EU health research coordination and reprioritise areas of unmet therapeutic need.

EPRS STOA Podcast -Towards a new EU pharmaceutical strategy

General view of Hungarian medicine factory Sanofi in Veresegyhaza on July 9, 2012. EU PHOTO / FERENC ISZA

An employer of Hungarian medicine factory Sanofi works in Veresegyhaz 35 kms from Budapest on July 16, 2012. EU PHOTO / FERENC ISZA

An employer of Hungarian medicine factory Sanofi works in Veresegyhaz 35 kms from Budapest on July 16, 2012.

Pills are pictured in Hungarian medicine factory Sanofi in Veresegyhaza on July 9, 2012.

A box of pills goes in Hungarian medicine factory Sanofi in Veresegyhaza on July 9, 2012.

Press Breakfast Meeting organised by Paul RUBIG MEP with Novartis

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