Health Care

In our zeal for mental health, are we labelling people as ill who would otherwise be considered creative, individual, odd, but harmless and wise?

Neurodegenerative illnesses – not just Alzheimer’s disease – are set to quadruple by the middle of the century. Jennifer Rankin examines efforts to stop dementia in its tracks and to support those who care for sufferers.

Enlargement has increased the need for the programme, Commission says.

European and US citizens divided over climate change; Obama ‘could improve transatlantic relations’.

Ineffectual gestures are not the way to win enduring respect.

A roadmap to social inclusion should emerge from the EU’s highest-level talks yet on Roma issues.

It is wrong to argue that there is a link between Polish energy prices and auctions or emissions allowances.

Report set to counter positions of those who commissioned it.

Health ministers to discuss how to improve co-operation to tackle infectious diseases.

Why bring in new pesticides rules when the old have yet to be assessed?

European Parliament raises concerns about animal welfare, diseases, diversity and the ethics of animal cloning.

Critics argue that the EU used the lowest common denominator and is putting children’s health at risk.

The European Commission has pledged €2 million in humanitarian aid to help the victims of floods in north-eastern India where around 2,000 people are estimated to have lost their lives in the worst floods to hit India in 50 years.

Belgian authorities today (29 August) banned the sale of fresh vegetables and milk produced within a five-kilometre radius of the Institut National de Radio-éléments in Fleurus, following a leak of radioactive gas.

The European biotech industry has to improve its performance in influencing EU regulation, according to its trade association’s new secretary-general. “We sometimes feel that we are held hostage by some member states,” said Willy De Greef, who has just taken over as the head of EuropaBio.

Regardless of how the world around it changes, the European Union maintains its traditional summer close-down period with an almost religious determination. Even as this issue of European Voice goes to press, the EU institutions are still largely deserted – and in one case quite literally in a state of collapse.

In response to Victor Ginsborg’s comment, ‘Economic weapons in wine’s war against terroir’ (31 July-27 August), wine is, I suspect, very much like oil and subject to that well-known phenomenon called ‘supply and demand’.

Regarding ‘Making babies makes sense for EU competitiveness’ (24-30 July), let me provide the youth perspective on the debate over Europe’s looming demographic crisis. First of all, policy-makers should enquire if young Europeans are actually having the number of children they wish. If the answer is ‘No’, what is wrong?

The European Commission on 27 August announced the selection of 18 international film co-operation projects which will receive a total of €2 million of EU funding under the so-called Media International programme, as part of the Commission’s drive to boost Europe’s film industry.

By 2065, almost one-third of the EU’s population will be older than 65, according to a forecast published on 26 August by Eurostat, the Union’s statistical office.

Populist prime minister is acting tough on energy supply and energy bills

EU allows in exports from region that is China’s largest producer of poultry meat.

EU executive believes that mandatory switch to self-extinguishing cigarettes could save hundreds of death a year.

Current restrictions put small bars at a disadvantage, court rules.