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EU PERSPECTIVES - Cardiovascular disease kills around 1.7 million Europeans every year, yet the EU has never had a dedicated strategy to tackle it. That is now changing with the Safe Hearts Plan. But as lawmakers backed the initiative on Wednesday, its parliamentary rapporteur warned that the final compromise fell short of her ambitions on tobacco...

EURACTIV - Dementia experts from 12 countries have signed a policy paper urging Brussels to give dementia its own framework, modelled on the €4 billion Beating Cancer Plan. Read more

EU PERSPECTIVES - Patients could pay the price as MEPs vote to delay who foots the bill for cleaning Europe's water. Parliament backed a temporary suspension of new costs for drugmakers and cosmetics firms. The vote split the assembly, pitting fears of medicine shortages against warnings that citizens will pay for pollution instead. Read more

EURACTIV - Belgium used the 16th June meeting of EU health ministers in Luxembourg to press for a united European front on medicine prices, urging member states to coordinate their response to US "most favoured nation" (MFN) pricing demands. Read more