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Spanish Generics Industry to Government: "Leave Branded Pharma Alone"

By Guest Blogger | Published: October 24, 2012
Just days before the reports that R&D investment in Spanish pharma had fallen to below EUR1 billion ($1.3 billion) in 2011 for the first time since 2007, the country’s generic manufacturers association, AESEG, offered some unexpected support for the branded industry. In comments to APM Health Europe described as “rare”, AESEG chief Ángel Luis Rodríguez de [...]
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Too Much Sauce Hollandaise? Pharma, France, and Socialism

By Guest Blogger | Published: May 24, 2012
Will France’s new socialist president, François Hollande, prove too strong for pharma’s taste? Reflector, Pharm Exec’s EU correspondent, reports. So it has happened. A leading European country has gone against the predominant political grain, and elected a socialist head of state. France is now ruled by François Hollande, a mild-mannered but avowedly drug-industry-skeptical president. Is the [...]
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Roche Gets Tough on Greece

By Julian Upton | Published: September 21, 2011
Roche Gets Tough on Greece, Other Eurozone Countries May Follow On Friday Roche confirmed it had come to the end of its tether with state-funded hospitals in Greece. In an interview with the Wall Street Journal, CEO Severin Schwan announced that the company has increased shipments of drugs to pharmacies in the country, while cutting off [...]
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