Health Care

The EU’s eastern enlargement exposed huge inequalities in healthcare between new and old member states.

Powerful pharmaceuticals companies pulling the strings behind the scenes in public policy efforts to target cancer.

Critics warn that EU cancer research funding is badly directed.

Researchers are developing increasingly complex treatments for cancer.

One example of the difficulties in bring new drugs to market.

Too many hospitals in the EU are breeding grounds for infections.

The EU must take co-ordinated action to share knowledge, exchange best practices and encourage progress in therapy.

Few Europeans know of pan-European emergency number.

Creation of agency marks the start of a huge review of chemicals in use in Europe.

Hygiene committee joins majority of EU member states in opposing end to long-standing ban.

Probe is linked to broader inquiry into fall in generic drugs coming onto the market.

The European Commission is now set for a battle with EU member states.

European Commission says limit would be “discriminatory” and “incompatible with EU law”.

Incomes are most evenly spread in Nordic states, least evenly spread in Portugal.

Football’s governing bodies are anxious to draw distinctions between sport and other areas of economic activity.

We must not forget the value of public health interventions.

Racists still find a refuge in too many soccer stadiums around the EU.

Last month, 518 MEPs approved a report calling on the international football federation, FIFA, to scrap plans for a controversial rule on player quotas. They said the …

Obesity is recognised as one of the EU’s biggest public health challenges. Armchair fans are being encouraged to swap the sofa for the soccer pitch.

The European Championships kick off on 7 June. Daniel Igra runs the rule over the teams and sees little prospect of a replay of Euro 2004, when an unfancied nation – Greece – took the title.

Some EU states fear too many existing pesticides could be forced off the market.

The number of fake toiletries and toys imported into the EU is also soaring.

Biotech companies are eyeing an end to a long campaign to ease the approval of genetically modified crops. They accuse conservation groups of relying on old data.

European Commission backs end to ban on US poultry and easing of regulations on EU poultry farmers.