European Health Union
Initiative and Manifesto
The Manifesto for a European Health Union addresses three issues:
It calls on the political leaders of Europe in the framework of the Conference on the Future of Europe to commit to creating a European Health Union (EHU).
It invites the people of Europe to engage in building a health policy that contributes to the long-term sustainable development of the European Union (EU). Commitment to progress should not be framed just by the necessity to fight COVID-19 within the framework created by existing European Treaties. Rather it should be framed by the necessity to show the people of Europe that our Union is there to protect us all. The pandemic has created a window of opportunity to take strong public action to build a Union where the lives and health of everyone matters.
The Manifesto sets out a vision of a EHU (with goals, policies, measures, principles) developed by the signatories of the Manifesto. We need to build a EHU where all people are as healthy as they can be throughout their lives.
Read the explanatory Memorandum here, and head over to europeanhealthunion.eu to sign the Manifesto or get in touch to support the initiative as an organisation.
Webinars and Podcasts
TOWARDS A EUROPEAN HEALTH UNION: Have we failed to protect Europe's people?
11 March 2021
As the COVID-19 pandemic continues to grip the continent, it is hard to deny that our collective failings during the crisis have been massive. Fault lines in the current model of European collaboration are standing out starkly again in the struggle for timely and equitable vaccine roll-outs.
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EHU PODCAST: Vaccine nationalism - where is the solidarity now?
6 Februar 2021
Europe seems to have forgotten that nobody is safe until everyone is safe. Does the current era of vaccine nationalism and its concomitant failure to demonstrate solidarity put a European Health Union at risk?
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TOWARDS A EUROPEAN HEALTH UNION: A vision for more EU in health
9 December 2020
As the COVID-19 pandemic continues to impact Europe and the world, the need for European cohesion and global solidarity in health has never been stronger. Building on the conversations started in the EHFG webinar series Gastein goes online: Policy debates during the pandemic, we are proud to present our first webinar in the framework of the European Health Union (EHU) initiative: Towards a European Health Union: A vision for more EU in health, which took place on December 9th 10:00 – 11:00 AM CET.
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Get in touch
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