Lawmakers back a plan targeting Europe’s biggest killer — and take aim at tobacco and alcohol

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 and alcohol. Read more

MEP Jerković is frank in admitting the final text falls short of what she hoped for. / Photo : EP