After taking some holidays, which were very much needed for recharging batteries, the EFN Office is back to work at full motion!<\/p>\n
We are looking at an exciting second half of the year ahead of us. The new President of the European Commission, Ms Von der Leyen, is building a colleague of Commissioners. They will set the political priorities of the EU for the next upcoming five years. Almost all EU Member States have already nominated their candidates for taking the top political posts. We still do not know who is going to be next Commissioner for Health, but the EFN will closely monitor the process. It is key that as soon as the new Commission starts meeting to set the new political agenda, the EFN is present there to ensure that nurses\u2019 views are included in the new term of EU-policy making<\/a>, with particular regards to issues such as the workforce<\/a> and nurses\u2019 education<\/a>.<\/p>\n As for the European Parliament, the new President has already been elected. He is David Sassoli, an Italian politician member of the Democratic party. The EFN is looking to forward working with him, and to build alliances with all the MEPs who feel close to the nursing cause.<\/p>\n Finally, this second half of the year also marks a great opportunity for the EFN to keep making progress on its three EU-funded projects: Smart4Health<\/a> and InteropEHRate<\/a>, both on them on Electronic Health Records; and QualMent<\/a>, a project addressing the clinical mentor\u2019s lack in nursing education and develop the clinical mentor\u2019s competence with mentor education for national and international nursing students.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" After taking some holidays, which were very much needed for…<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false},"categories":[35],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-11556","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-news"],"jetpack-related-posts":[{"id":19157,"url":"https:\/\/efn.eu\/?p=19157","url_meta":{"origin":11556,"position":0},"title":"EFN back to business – focus on European Semester developments","author":"efn efn","date":"September 1, 2025","format":false,"excerpt":"With the European Institutions back from summer recess, the EFN is back in business, ready for a full second lobby half of the year, rich in opportunities to raise the nurses\u2019 voice at the highest levels of the EU Policy and Political arena. 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