Slovakia wants European Medicines Agency

Slovakia wants European Medicines Agency

Slovakia will vie for having the headquarters of the European Medicines Agency (EMA) relocated from the United Kingdom to its soil, Prime Minister Robert Fico told RTVS on Saturday. As he explained, the application must be submitted by July 31. "I've been notified that our ministers are going to London to take a tour of the agency and learn what it would entail," claimed Fico. According to him, 22 EU members have expressed their interest in the relocation of two European agencies currently headquartered in the United Kingdom: the EMA and the European Banking Authority (EBA). Set up in 1995, the EMA's mission is to harmonise (but not replace) the work of existing national medicine regulatory bodies. At the moment, the agency employs approximately 900 people, mostly highly-qualified experts from the whole of Europe.

Mojmir Prochazka, Photo: Pixabay.com/FraukeFeind

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