Tag Archives: France

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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Taxing Times for French Pharma

By Guest Blogger | Published: May 11, 2012
By Nathan Jessop. While French politics has taken a decisive shift to the left with the election of the country’s first socialist president for 17 years, it does not look like Francois Hollande will be changing or derailing any of the existing — and sometimes quite radical — healthcare reforms that the outgoing Nicolas Sarkozy had introduced [...]
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2012: A Good, Bad, and Ugly Year for France's Servier

By Guest Blogger | Published: February 21, 2012
By Nathan Jessop. Whichever way you look at it, 2012 will be a dramatic year for Servier. The French company has a number of collaborations that could lead to a new generation of products, but any positive news from these developments is likely to be overshadowed by the ongoing safety scandal of its diabetes treatment Mediator [...]
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