European Parliament · 16 September 2020

Shortage of medicines – how to address an emerging problem

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376 in favour · 256 against · 58 abstained. 690 members voted.

What it asks for, in the Parliament's words

• Calls on the Commission and the Member States to ensure that healthcare workers are authorised to cross internal borders if they work in a neighbouring country
• Calls on the Commission and the Member States to ensure that health care workers are authorised to cross internal borders if they work in a neighbouring country
• Calls on the Commission to place the issue of the shortage of cancer medicines at the centre of the treatment part of the forthcoming Europe’s Beating Cancer Plan

Quoted from A9-0142/2020, which says more than these lines. Each is a whole paragraph; this site does not rewrite them.

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Check it at the European Parliament

• Roll-call results, 16 September 2020
• Minutes of the sitting
• Procedure file A9-0142/2020
• Open data record for the sitting