EU INDUSTRY COMMISSIONER-DESIGNATE SAYS SHE CAN HANDLE MEDICINE PORTFOLIO
October 1st, 2014
ELŻBIETA Bieńkowska, the European Union (EU) commissioner-designate for industry and the internal market has defended the move of the pharmaceutical portfolio and of the European Medicines Agency (EMA) oversight from the Commission’s health to her industry directorate.“Putting the pharma industry together with other branches of industry is justified,” she told members of the European Parliament (MEPs) during a confirmation hearing in Brussels yesterday (October 2). “It is an industry that is the biggest producer in the world and where the EU is the ...
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