Brussels to push for EU-wide organ donor card

As nearly ten Europeans waiting for an organ transplant die every day, Brussels is set to table a proposal on how to boost organ donations – something currently highlighted by a controversial Dutch reality TV show in which viewers send text messages to a dying woman to help her decide which of three patients should receive her kidney.

EU health commissioner Markos Kyprianou will today unveil a new plan proposing to "promote donations from living donors" as well as to "establish efficie...