A majority of EU member states are pushing for legislation to address shortages of critical drugs and to reduce dependency on imported chemicals from China and other countries.
In a paper seen by the Financial Times, Belgium and 18 other countries — including Germany and France — have gone further than Brussels’ recent proposals to overhaul the bloc’s pharmaceuticals laws, calling for a “last-resort” mechanism to swap medicines between member states and the establishment of a list of critical drugs whose supply chains must be monitored.
The Covid-19 pandemic and Russia’s full-scale invasion of Ukraine have thrown into sharp relief both the fragility and strategic importance of pharmaceutical supply chains.
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