Tag Archives: European Commission

Nothing is Rotten in the State of Denmark

By Julian Upton | Published: March 2, 2010
Guest blog by Reflector, Pharm Exec Europe’s Brussels correspondent. Denmark is still on the fringes of some European Union policies. Notably, it has not yet embraced the euro as a currency, and it keeps its distance from the common defence policy. But in one respect, its pharmaceutical industry has just shown that it is well abreast [...]
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Europe: Of Apes and Ombudsmen

By Julian Upton | Published: February 17, 2010
Guest blog by Reflector, Pharm Exec Europe’s Brussels correspondent. This column has frequently drawn attention to the complexities of getting anything done in Europe. A brilliant researcher can explore visionary horizons, an ambitious entrepreneur can offer a package of goods or services of inestimable value, but the degree of control and regulation becomes more intense [...]
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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 EU Pharma Switch

By Julian Upton | Published: December 2, 2009
The chair of the first session of the joint meeting between the European Medicines Agency (EMEA) and The Organization for Professionals in Regulatory Affairs (TOPRA) in London this week was quick to point out that the event was not scheduled to coincide with last Friday’s announcement that European Commission (EC) responsibility for EMEA is finally [...]
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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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