English
The actions of the European Union in the face of the health crisis have been limited de jure by the treaties (lack of legal authority) and de facto by the extremely limited political and financial resources available to be devoted to European health policy. Secure supply lines of medical equipment at the European level could not be ensured, against a backdrop of diverging industrial trajectories of Member States, making it difficult for a common industrial policy to emerge.
Keywords
- European Union
- COVID-19
- health policy
- industrial policy
- medical equipment
- public health
- Directorate-General for Health and Food Safety