As the EU grapples with successive crises, there is mounting pressure to develop swift and robust crisis response mechanisms. This study, divided into two parts, aims to enrich this discourse by examining four instruments – SURE, CRII, CRII+ and REACT-EU – introduced as a response to the pandemic. This paper forms the output of the […]
More than other EU ‘Unions’, the proposed Health Union requires proper definition because the EU’s competences are limited in this domain. The Covid-19 crisis has highlighted the hazardous inefficiency of piecemeal national responses, and the fact that individual member states cannot tackle the challenges of cross-border health threats alone. Creating more union in public health […]