The creeping Europeanisation of health policy is slowly raising the question of what scope member states actually have left to act as well as throwing up profound implications for national healthcare systems and national politics.
Under current EU law, Brussels has powers in the public health sphere. It is charged with supporting member states in "improving public health, preventing human illness and obviating sources of danger to human health."
It also has powers in consumer prot...
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