During the last few months, the EFN has been monitoring how the EU institutions, and especially the European Commission, have been responding to the latest events in the COVID-19 pandemic.<\/p>\n
The European Commission is coordinating a\u00a0common<\/a> Europe<\/a>an<\/a> respo<\/a>nse\u00a0<\/a>to the coronavirus outbreak. This response aims to take action and reinforce Europe’s public health sectors while mitigating the socio-economic impact of this health crisis. They are coordinating with the Member States to make sure that their national responses are aligned, and it collects information about how the virus is spreading nationally and measures taken to stop it.<\/p>\n The European Centre for Disease Prevention and Control, the EU Agency currently playing the biggest role during the pandemic, is\u00a0reporting daily<\/a>\u00a0on the situation of COVID-19 across all EU countries and the UK. They have also elaborated an\u00a0interactive dashboard<\/a>\u00a0tracking the number of COVID-19 cases in the EU and worldwide.<\/p>\n The European Council, serving as a forum for the EU Member States to coordinate, saw the agreement (last July) on the soon-to-be-implemented addition of a\u00a0recovery plan for Europe<\/a>.<\/p>\n The European Parliament has been strongly advocating worldwide for the role of the EU as a leader by\u00a0highlighting all the EU institutions are doing\u00a0<\/a>to ensure economic recovery and improving the public health situation, as well as initiating the virtual campaign\u00a0#EuropeansAgainstCovid19<\/a>. This campaign collects European stories of solidarity with the hope to encourage all EU citizens to stand strong during the pandemic.<\/p>\n Lastly, the Publications Office of the European Union gave the green-light to the publication of many E<\/a>U-written scientific publications<\/a>\u00a0on COVID-19 and its effect on the EU citizens.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" During the last few months, the EFN has been monitoring…<\/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-12695","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-news"],"jetpack-related-posts":[{"id":15457,"url":"https:\/\/efn.eu\/?p=15457","url_meta":{"origin":12695,"position":0},"title":"EFN at High-level Conference on COVID-19 Lessons Learned and Looking Ahead to ensure a stronger EU Health Security Framework","author":"efn efn","date":"November 22, 2022","format":false,"excerpt":"The Directorate General for Health and Food Safety (DG SANTE) of the European Commission together with the Ministry of Health of Luxembourg is organising on 22 and 23 November 2022 a High-level Conference on\u00a0COVID-19 lessons learned and looking ahead to ensure a stronger EU Health Security Framework, that can be\u2026","rel":"","context":"In "Latest News"","block_context":{"text":"Latest News","link":"https:\/\/efn.eu\/?cat=35"},"img":{"alt_text":"","src":"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/efn.eu\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/11\/Elizabeth-John-Ryan-scaled.jpg?fit=1200%2C900&ssl=1&resize=350%2C200","width":350,"height":200,"srcset":"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/efn.eu\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/11\/Elizabeth-John-Ryan-scaled.jpg?fit=1200%2C900&ssl=1&resize=350%2C200 1x, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/efn.eu\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/11\/Elizabeth-John-Ryan-scaled.jpg?fit=1200%2C900&ssl=1&resize=525%2C300 1.5x, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/efn.eu\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/11\/Elizabeth-John-Ryan-scaled.jpg?fit=1200%2C900&ssl=1&resize=700%2C400 2x, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/efn.eu\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/11\/Elizabeth-John-Ryan-scaled.jpg?fit=1200%2C900&ssl=1&resize=1050%2C600 3x"},"classes":[]},{"id":13148,"url":"https:\/\/efn.eu\/?p=13148","url_meta":{"origin":12695,"position":1},"title":"EFN at a high-level event on EU preparedness and response for health crises","author":"efn efn","date":"January 29, 2021","format":false,"excerpt":"The European Commission's Health and Food Safety Directorate (DG SANTE) organised a high-level event to discuss on the lessons learned from the COVID-19 pandemic for a stronger health security framework, proposed regulations on serious cross-border health threats, the ECDC and the new EMA Regulation. 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