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Innovators: Take a Leaf from the Generic Industry Book

By Guest Blogger | Published: February 1, 2011
No-one can accuse the European generic industry of indolence. It supplies huge quantities of medicines to European healthcare suppliers — its volume is estimated at around a half of the market. It is accounting for a growing share of marketing authorization applications in Europe. And its industry association, the EGA, has turned it from being [...]
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Europe: Not Out of the Antitrust Woods Yet

By Julian Upton | Published: January 14, 2010
Guest blog from Pharm Exec Europe’s Brussels correspondent, Reflector. The new year has started with a grim reminder that last year’s heat over competition in the European pharmaceutical sector has not been dissipated by the winter’s frosts. Before January was a week old, the European Commission (EC) announced that it had opened a formal antitrust [...]
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The EC Admonishes European Pharma, European Pharma Celebrates

By Julian Upton | Published: July 17, 2009
Despite the rhetoric, the climax of the European Commission’s antitrust investigations — instigated with dawn raids on the major pharma companies by EC Competition Commissioner Neelie Kroes last year — has been more of a whimper than a bang. Pharm Exec Europe’s EU correspondent Reflector goes so far as to say “Big Pharma is not opening [...]
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