newsitems EU Health Commissioner Vassiliou to EuroFora on Virus AH1N1 Vaccine : Safety is the most important !
EU Health Commissioner Vassiliou to EuroFora on Virus AH1N1 Vaccine : Safety is the most important !
Even if the sole body in charge of controling the vaccines is the London-based European Medicine Agency (EMA), which works on a virus' strain given by the only official American Labo, nevertheless, Strasbourg-based European "Pharmacopeia", a CoE's body, already intervned from the start, with preventive controls on the Virus' specimens affected to EMA, and will also inervene before mass distribution to ensure that the produced Vaccines will meet the standards, said to "EuroFora" EU Expet Antoon Di Santo.
- "Safety of Vaccines is the most important issue for us", replied EU Commissioner Vassiliou to "EuroFors"'s question. "So, when vaccines will be certified by the (EU) Comission, we shall be absolutely certain", she promissed. EU has enough Experts at its disposal in order to be able to ensure that, she added.
The move is expected to start "before the end of September". Meanwhile, EU Commission already anounced a series of practical measures from now in order to help several EU Member Countries (particularly among the "new", Central-Eastern European States) who don't seem to have enough means to cope alone, to get access to sufficient vaccines in the best possible conditions, thanks to "joint procurements", EU "coordination", etc. As well as in order to focus, at first, on the most exposed parts of the population, (such as Health and other essential public services' agents, pregnant women and children, people with relevant chronic diseases (such as cardio-vascular, diabetes, respiratory, etc), before enough vaccines for all will be produced later-on.
But Vassiliou is aware of a risk for the A H1N1 Virus to "mutate" into a different genetic mix during winter time. - "I hope this doesn't arrive", she said, because things will become much more difficult. It's already a genetic mutation, provoked by unknown causes, which seems to be at the origin of "new" Virus A H1N1 : A "mix" of swine and avian virus with human virus, similar to that of "Spanish Flu" which reportedly killed millions on the sidelines of the 1st World War,
This might explain why the 2009 Pandemics, which progressively stroke all the World, started "at the spot" of such an incident, (i.e. at US Borders between California and/or Texas and Mexico), said to "EuroFora" EU Expert Di Santo, who works at the same EU service which was also in charge of the fight against SARS epidemics in the recent past, which had notoriously originated at a Hong-Kong Labo.
- In fact, all flu viruses frequently mutate, more or less : That's why often vaccines are updated to such changes, he observed. But he waqs unable yet to explain why a kind of virus who had disappeared since the "Spanish Flu" at the beginning of the 20th Century, suddenly re-appeared in 2009 in a mutated version..
( See EU Commission's preparatory measures in detail at : http://ec.europa.eu/avservices/player/streaming.cfm?type=ebs&sid=147317)
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Speaking exclusively to "EuroFora", the New EU Parliament's President, former Polish Prime Minister, ChristianDemocrat/EPP MEP Jerzy Busek, welcomed proposals by EuroFora about innovative ways for EU Citizens to attend EU debates before important final decisions which affect people's lives.
- "We (EU Parliament) must be transparent", Buzek stressed from the outset. "We must have clear answers also for delicate questions. If we don't touch a problem, you must know why, and when shall we decide in the nearest future".. "Because "we (EU) must think about Europeans, first of all : They don't understand well what is going on in the EU. So, it's our duty to inform them, to make discussions here more interesting".
"EuroFora" congratulated President Buzek for the anouncement he made, from the 1st day of his election in Strasbourg (on Tuesday, 14 July 2009), on his intention to make transparent debates, exchanges of views, etc. before the final adoption of decisions in EU Parliament's Plenary, when issues are evolving inside Committees, (See earlier publication).
And we reminded, in this regard, that "EuroFora" has been advocating a project for EU Citizens' active involvement in pluralist EU debates before important EU decisions, since more than a Decade : 1997-2007+
- "Thank you. We (EU Parliament), indeed, have exciting debates", Buzek replied. But, in practice, "without a possibility for our Citizens to see them, not even by the Press, the Radio or TV, etc., because it is in Committees", he regreted.
- "But, they (i.e. Media, Citizens, etc) might interact with you, with MEPs, etc, May be we can imagine something", "EuroFora" proposed.
- "Yes, (but) it needs, a quite new idea", Buzed observed.
- "Why not through some innovations ?", "EuroFora" suggested.
- "Precisely, "EuroFora" has such a project, since more than a Decade (1997-2009), to use new technologies for public debates before major EU decisions are taken", we reminded.
- "If you have such proposals, please come to us, come to us. We must" do something, agreed the new EU Parliamen's President.
For that purpose, obviously information and debates are valuable, but purely instrumental, procedural means which can help focus on, and highlight a substantial content, attractive to EU Citizens, which needs to be determined by other, political, and not mediatic factors.
Buzek spoke about the urgent need to overcome the Global Economic Crisis, the struggle for Human and Civic Rights, Democracy, etc., the Eastern Partnership, links with Russia, strategic partnership with USA and emerging countries, etc.
But he also used (while speaking both to "EuroFora" and other Media) the expression : "The Europeans", for EU Citizens. This points right towards what several important EU leaders (including French President Sarkozy, German Chancellor Merkel, etc) have started to highlight particularly during the recent years : That there is a vital need, and an historic opportunity, for the development of a European Conscience, to stimulate e renaissance of a European Identity able to attract Popular support, for the EU to become a strong player in a Multopolar World : In other words, the revitalisation of a project for a "Political Europe".
By a coincidence, this was indirectly but surely reminded, earlier in Strasbourg, by another ... Busek (this time with a "s") :
Speaking to more than 650 participants from CoE's member countries, at the conclusion of the 2009 Summer University of its Political Schools, Erhard Busek, (with an "s"), former vice-Chancellor of Austria and EU Coordinator for South-Eastern Europe, pointed at the current need to revitalize Europe's "Identity", forged by Greek philosophy and Roman Law, Christian values and Enlightment's ideas, etc. through the ages.
- "We have almost the same name with Jerzy Buzek (EU Parliament's new President, who is a former Polish Prime Minister), because both our Families come ...from the same village, located at the Heart of Europe, which was often shared between Poland, Germany and the Czech Republic. But my family emmigrated a long time ago to Austria, while Jerzy Buzek's family remained in Poland", explained f. vice-Chancellor Erhard Busek to "EuroFora".
An astonishingly concrete and simple example of European Integration from the grassroots : Starting by EU Citizens, i.e. those "Europeans", that EU Parliament's new President, Jerzy Buzek (this time with a "z"), wants to bring alongside MEP's decision-making proces, (according to "EuroFora"'s main idea : Comp. supra)...