The court’s ruling also means that the government may have to pay back duties it has already collected, said Ilya Somin, a professor of law at George Mason University, who helped argue a case against the tariffs brought by several small businesses. #tariffs www.politico.com/news/2025/05...

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The decision is a “slam dunk for transparency,” said Dutch MEP Raquel García Hermida-van der Walle, who is co-negotiating changes to a law governing access to documents on behalf of the liberal Renew Europe group.

A big win for journalists and anyone wanting to access EU documents: www.politico.eu/article/pfiz...

Read more from @roneilll.bsky.social at Politico.

The proposal also contains measures for countries to financially support strategic projects, such as manufacturing, that shore up supply chains for critical medicines.

Countries would procure drugs based on new criteria including stockholding obligations, the number of diversified suppliers, monitoring of supply chains, transparency and performance clauses.

At the heart of the proposal is an overhaul of procurement rules so that countries don’t simply opt for the cheapest available product and instead prioritize security of supply.

Europe will unveil its Critical Medicine Act tomorrow, new legislation to shore up medicines supplies and avert drug shortages. We got the scoop: pro.politico.eu/news/195310

'Mr Ozempic' - Lars Fruergaard Jørgensen - leads Europe's most valuable pharmaceutical company in Europe. His company's weight-loss drugs are shrinking waistlines but challenging health services. Read @marieccles.bsky.social's profile of a self-deprecating Novo lifer: www.politico.eu/article/denm...

While in his first week in the HHS, Robert F Kennedy began steering the 80,000-person department in a radically new direction — preparing to dismiss key vaccine advisers, reports POLITICO: www.politico.com/news/2025/02...

An unvaccinated child has died from measles in Texas, the first known death in an outbreak that's affected 124 so far, reports the NYT. www.nytimes.com/2025/02/26/u...

🧵"So this is how liberty dies..."

Trump’s first 3 weeks have been a relentless flood of actions. It's incredibly hard to keep up.

I’ve gone through 69 actions & mapped out the pattern - showing how they fall within 5 broad domains consistent with authoritarian states 1/9

The EU’s first ever program to guarantee revenue to a drugmaker for supplying a novel #antibiotic has fallen through after the winning firm, Menarini, refused to sign the contract. It was Europe's first attempt at a pull incentive for novel antibiotics to tackle #AMR.
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The World Health Organization is freezing recruitment and slashing travel in response to the withdrawal of the U.S., its biggest funder, according to an internal email seen by POLITICO.

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And this ageing profession is grappling with record rates of health care demand... from ageing populations.

Healthcare has among the highest shortfalls in labour. Figures from Eurostat help explain why: It's an ageing profession. Bulgaria, Italy, Latvia, Germany, France have the most medics 55yrs+; Romania, Malta, Finland, Ireland, the Netherlands have the least. ec.europa.eu/eurostat/en/...

Hello Bluesky public health folks. Big news in the EU this morning. European Commission President Ursula von der Leyen has confirmed the roles of the new commissioners. And Hungary's Olivér Várhelyi will lead new legislation to tackle drug shortages: the Critical Medicines Act.