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Towards a European Health Union: Time to Level Up
- Publication Year :
- 2020
- Publisher :
- HAL CCSD, 2020.
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Abstract
- The European response to COVID-19 has revealed an inconvenient truth. Despite having integrated public health concerns across all its policies – be it agriculture, consumer protection, or security –, the Union cannot directly act to save people’s lives. Only member states can do so. Yet when they adopted unilateral measures to counter the spread of the virus, those proved not only ineffective but also disruptive on vital supply chains, by ultimately preventing the flow of essential goods and people across the Union. These fragmented efforts in tackling cross-border health threats have almost immediately prompted political calls for the urgent creation of a European Health Union. Yet this call raises more questions than answers. With the aim to offer a rigorous and timely blueprint to decision-makers and the public at large, this Special Issue of the European Journal of Risk Regulation contextualizes such a new political project within the broader constitutional and institutional framework of EU public health law and policy. By introducing the Special, this paper argues that unless the envisaged Health Union will tackle the root causes of what prevented the Union from effectively responding to COVID-19 – the divergent health capacity across the Union –, it might fall short of its declared objective of strengthening the EU’resilience for cross-border health threats.
- Subjects :
- EU health
Public administration
0302 clinical medicine
Emergency Regulation
030212 general & internal medicine
050207 economics
media_common
Precautionary principle
050208 finance
030503 health policy & services
05 social sciences
Cost-benefit analysis
EU law
Risk regulation
3. Good health
Risk vs risk
JEL: K - Law and Economics/K.K3 - Other Substantive Areas of Law/K.K3.K32 - Environmental, Health, and Safety Law
[SHS.GESTION]Humanities and Social Sciences/Business administration
Health law
0305 other medical science
Safety Research
tradeoffs
medicine.medical_specialty
Public health law
Economic policy
Supply chain
JEL: K - Law and Economics/K.K3 - Other Substantive Areas of Law
03 medical and health sciences
Politics
Blueprint
Political science
0502 economics and business
medicine
media_common.cataloged_instance
European Union
European union
Worst-case scenarios
Risk Regulation
Suppression
business.industry
Public health
JEL: K - Law and Economics/K.K3 - Other Substantive Areas of Law/K.K3.K33 - International Law
COVID-19
Consumer protection
Coronavirus
Agriculture
business
Law
Subjects
Details
- Language :
- English
- Database :
- OpenAIRE
- Accession number :
- edsair.doi.dedup.....da481de631034e2c24e8ef3963d8d13b