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Right balance is needed between promoting innovation and securing affordability of medicines

The upcoming review of the EU pharmaceutical legislation is long awaited by Member States as well as by all the interested stakeholders. In the context of the post-Covid times, healthcare systems are facing new challenges that call for effective response.
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Summary of this year's last Energy Council

After a three-round debate, the Council approved a political agreement on the market correction mechanism, which will be adopted in a written procedure starting on 22 December.
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Last Environment Council of 2022

At the Environment Council on 20 December, 2022 in Brussels ministers discussed crucial elements of the nature restoration law. Ministers agreed that biodiversity loss and climate change are strongly interconnected challenges, and the EU has to take urgent and ambitious steps to face them.
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We should be dealing with sensible issues instead of floundering around

Instead of dealing with sensible issues, searching for new sources of energy and developing of infrastructure, the European Union has spent the last few months floundering around the gas price cap, Minister of Foreign Affairs and Trade Péter Szijjártó said in Brussels on Monday.
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Several dangerous elements have been removed from the EU gas cap proposal

No decision has yet been taken on the EU gas cap; the government still thinks that the introduction of the cap is a bad idea and considers it unnecessary, but several particularly dangerous elements have been removed from the original proposal, Minister of Foreign Affairs and Trade Péter Szijjártó said in Brussels on Tuesday.
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