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Centre-right Spanish MEP Dolors Montserrat (l) and centre-left Belgian MEP Kathleen Van Brempt of the Covid-19 special committee talk to the press in Strasbourg (Photo: European Parliament)

EU 'still not' ready for future pandemic, MEP warns

"We were not ready," MEP Kathleen Van Brempt told reporters on Tuesday (13 June) on the Covid-19 pandemic, as the work of the European Parliament's special committee on the pandemic comes to an end.

And Van Brempt, a centre-left MEP from Belgium who chaired the committee, warned that "the answer is still no" if the question is if the EU is ready now. "Still a lot of things that need to be done," she added.

Van Brempt said that while understandably "people want to move on" from t...

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Eszter Zalan is a Hungarian journalist who worked for Brussels-based news portal EUobserver specialising in European politics, focusing on populism and Brexit.

Centre-right Spanish MEP Dolors Montserrat (l) and centre-left Belgian MEP Kathleen Van Brempt of the Covid-19 special committee talk to the press in Strasbourg (Photo: European Parliament)

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Eszter Zalan is a Hungarian journalist who worked for Brussels-based news portal EUobserver specialising in European politics, focusing on populism and Brexit.

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