It would be a serious mistake not have an EU-wide regulatory framework for internet pharmacies.  Not achieving one would be just more evidence of the politics that infects all discussions of cross-border healthcare to the detriment of the patient and health consumer.  Illegal drugs, fake drugs, reimported drugs, counterfeit drugs, substandard drugs, legitimate drugs — [...]

While it is good to see progress at the European level to deal with threats to human health that do not recognise borders, the steps that may be taken to ensure security in the name of health many lead to greater threats to civil liberties.
Integral to coordinated responses to public health threats are efforts to [...]

Greedy governments stifle innovation by reserving all the intellectual property of publicly funded research for their own use.  The problem is that governments are not very good at knowing what to do next, and invariably tie up valuable innovation in bureaucratic process, without adding any social value at all.
The Eurocrats like US comparisons, so here [...]

The Innovative Medicines Initiative seeks to put right the chaotic treatment of pharmaceutical innovation by EU member states, and will likely fail.  The goose that lays golden eggs of medical innovation is cooked to death by member state medicines policies.
Increasing the speed of product development will come to a grinding halt as member states inconsistently [...]