Speech by Commissioner Stella Kyriakides at the High-Level Conference on the Future EU Health Union

Speech by Commissioner Stella Kyriakides at the High-Level Conference on the Future EU Health Union

 

The European Health Union is built on six pillars.

 

The first two refer to Health Security:

We have a stronger cooperation framework on serious cross-border threats through a revised Regulation. And we have adapted mandates to our specialised health agencies, the European Centre for Disease Prevention and Control, and the European medicines Agency. We have also created HERA, the EU's Health Emergency and Preparedness and Response Authority (...)

Europe's Beating Cancer Plan is the third pillar. (...)

 

The fourth pillar - A Health Union cannot exist with first- and second-class patients when it comes to access to medicines. (...)

The digitalisation of health is the fifth pillar. (...)

And the sixth pillar - The comprehensive approach to Mental Health, which we presented last year, aims to break the stigma around mental health and make a positive difference to every citizen, with a special focus on young people. (...)