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Le début des expérimentations du cannabis à usage médical vient d’être validé par l’Assemblée Nationale, vendredi 25 octobre 2019. Les premiers tests concerneront environ 3000 patients dans le cadres de certaines maladies bien spécifiques.

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1. Epilepsie, soins palliatifs et sclérose en plaques à l’essai

L’expérimentation du cannabis thérapeutique vient d’être validée. La proposition du rapporteur Olivier Véran (LREM) a été votée, à main levée, dans le cadre de l’examen du projet de budget de la Sécurité Sociale pour 2020. L’amendement prévoit une expérimentation, déjà précédemment validée par l’Agence nationale du médicament, sur une période de deux ans. 

Epilepsie, soins palliatifs et sclérose en plaques à l’essai“Elle pourra porter sur 3.000 patients en France et visera à expérimenter l’impact positif des dérivés du cannabis sur certaines pathologies”, a expliqué Olivier Véran. Le député a également tenu à préciser qu’il ne s’agissait pas de remplacer les médicaments déjà efficaces mais plutôt de disposer d’une solution alternative. Les tests, dont la secrétaire d’Etat, Christelle Dubosc, souhaite le début “au cours du premier semestre 2020” concerneront environ 3000 malades. Principalement des personnes atteintes de maladies graves de type : 

épilepsie, douleurs neuropathiques, effets secondaires de chimiothérapie, 

sclérose en plaques ou des personnes en soins palliatifs. Les malades se verront prescrire le traitement par un médecin spécialiste, neurologue ou médecin de la douleur sous forme de fleurs séchées, d’huiles et aussi de tisanes fournies par des pharmacies hospitalières ou de villes. Les professionnels de santé devront suivre les améliorations, mais aussi les effets secondaires. Le cannabis à usage médical a déjà été validé par plus de trente pays, dont les premiers étaient le Canada, les Pays-Bas et Israël. 

Cannabis : comment agit-il sur notre organisme ?

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Say hello to invisible Brexit

Brexit arrived with a thunderclap, but it is leaving with a whimper.

BRUSSELS — Britain is leaving the European Union this weekend with a whimper.

It took one referendum, two national elections, three prime ministers and four years of continentwide political anguish for the United Kingdom to achieve Brexit, but you will find little proof of it across Europe as Britain heads for the door Friday.

Brexit was not a topic of conversation among the business elite at the World Economic Forum in Davos, Switzerland, and it’s virtually taboo in Brussels, heart of the European Union. In Britain, Prime Minister Boris Johnson has been filling his political week with a debate over a controversial high-speed rail line and a battle with Washington over Huawei’s role in Britain’s mobile networks, ahead of Secretary of State Mike Pompeo’s visit to London on Thursday.

And while Brexit may have spawned a thousand front pages and billions of Google searches, it’s been knocked off the global media agenda by events as disparate as Kobe Bryant’s death, President Donald Trump’s impeachment trial and Australian wildfires.

In part that’s because not much changes at the stroke of midnight on Friday.

The world will wake up Saturday to scenes of jubilant Brexit voters wrapped in Union Jack flags and wearing Union Jack-patterned hats in the shadow of Big Ben. But there will be no fireworks, and not even a special “bonging” of Big Ben (closed for repairs). And when the hangover wears off, the sober reality will be a long transition period. It will take at least a year — and possibly up to a decade — to negotiate a detailed trade deal to manage the future EU-U.K. relationship.

With that in mind, most Britons don’t want to hear about Brexit anymore, even though they handed Boris Johnson a majority government in December to “get Brexit done.”

According to Scott Carn, a Briton who works in London and lives in Brussels, “Brits just want Brexit to go away. Even if they think it’s sh–, they just want something different to talk to about.”

In Brussels, most EU officials and lobbyists are treating Brexit day as a sad moment, but not something to dwell on. “By 2019, we were just fed up,” said one chief of staff in the EU’s executive arm.

“At first there was hope that [Brexit] might not happen,” the official added. “Then we asked what we could do to help manage it. Now it’s just ‘get it done.’”

Years of tortured negotiations between Brussels and London felt like “being dumped by your boyfriend cruelly and slowly,” according to another EU official involved in the talks. But now that the divorce papers are signed, Brexit feels like a nonevent. A chemical industry lobbyist described the week as an “anti-climax.”

For others, there’s a personal toll and private lament. As I played on the floor with the toddler of my Brussels hosts on Monday, his British mother — who met his Dutch father while working in Brussels — told me: “These kids would not exist without the European Union. We owe our family to Britain’s membership of the EU. It’s just sad to think of the families that will never be because of all this.”

Nothing changes for those working on the planned EU-U.K. trade deal: the same team will return to the same desks, under the same leadership of French negotiator Michel Barnier and Sabine Weyand, his former deputy who is now head of the EU trade department. Top of the list of issues to be negotiated: Fishing rights, EU-U.K. level playing field arrangements, trade and security protocol.

What EU officials fear most is that the U.K. will seek to turn itself into a low-tax, low-regulation competitor to the EU on its doorstep.

“A lot of people think they’re deregulating and that they’re saying, ‘F— it, we don’t like your [economic] model,’” said an EU official who helps coordinate the European Commission’s negotiating position. The more the U.K. attempts to diverge from EU rules and standards, the longer that trade deal will take to negotiate.

Whatever the rhetoric from Downing Street, Brexit is inevitably the latest stage of Britain’s centurylong withdrawal from its empire and global leadership ambitions.

The U.K. may retreat further still. The Scottish government wants a second independence referendum, and the demographic tide is turning in Northern Ireland, which may yet reunite with the Republic of Ireland within a generation.

Unlike other historic British withdrawals that threw the rights of citizens and residents up into the air, there will be no grand ceremonies or scenes of violence to mark Brexit.

In Brussels, the official Brexit documents were signed at 2 a.m. Friday, and starting on Wednesday, British flags will be discreetly removed from EU buildings over the course of three days. The European Parliament’s Union Jack flag will be consigned to a nearby history museum.

Compare that to the 1947 partition process that created India and Pakistan. Britain’s chaotic withdrawal from the area displaced around 14 million people and left at least 200,000 dead. Britain’s efforts to leave Palestine and allow the birth of two countries, including the Jewish state of Israel, led to a war from 1947 to 1949.

When Britain left Hong Kong in 1997, there was no blood, but its residents were left in a suspended state of partial democracy. Today, they make the same demands to Chinese authorities for self-determination, and the same demands for British citizenship, that London turned down in the 1980s.

As a heartbroken EU fractures and Britain forges a new path, this time the pain will be felt in customs paperwork and passport checks rather than blood and bodies. For a union built on the promise of peace, that’s something to hold on to.

Michel: EU leaders to consider ‘Marshall Plan’ for Europe

Next long-term budget will need to support economic stimulus package, says Council president.

EU leaders will on Thursday discuss a “Marshall Plan-like” stimulus package to fight the dire effects of the coronavirus on the bloc’s economies, European Council President Charles Michel said Wednesday.

Speaking on Belgian television channel LN24, Michel said he had earlier this week discussed “the way we are going to put in place what I call a Marshall Plan-like stimulus strategy” with the bloc’s 27 ambassadors, ahead of Thursday’s videoconference of heads of state and government.

“And when I say Marshall Plan-like, I say with a strong ambition,” he added. The impact of the economic shock on businesses means “we must be very active, very soon.”

Michel described the endeavor as “an intra-European plan which must mobilize EU capital in the framework of the European budget; which must mobilize national funds and which should also mobilize the private sector,” adding: “We will have to use all the tools.”

Leaders on Thursday are expected to call on the European Commission to put together a new plan for economic recovery.

In a draft statement prepared ahead of the leaders’ discussion and seen by POLITICO, officials wrote that the bloc would need an “exit strategy, a comprehensive recovery plan and unprecedented investment” for the coronavirus crisis, and would “invite the Commission to start work on a proposal for a Roadmap for recovery accompanied by an Action Plan.”

Michel said: “We should not expect a sprint, this crisis is going to have an impact on us at short, medium and long term.”

Prior to the virus hitting Europe, the Council president was focused on brokering a deal in negotiations over the bloc’s 2021-2027 budget.

“I believe the crisis we are going through now has an impact” on the EU budget negotiations, Michel said, adding that the budget should draw on the “lessons” of the crisis and especially the ability to “assert solidarity and to have with that budget a real instrument to support our priorities for the economic stimulus plan.”

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Making the most of EU health research

5 experts on the most important funding priorities.

This article is part of “Health Care 2024,” a survey-driven series of online debates in which POLITICO explores how the European Union can best tackle health policy.

The next European Commission will be in charge of allocating a proposed €1.1 billion a year for health research from 2021 on. In this installment of Health Care 2024 — a series of symposiums asking leading experts to weigh in on the health care priorities for the next Commission — POLITICO asks: How should that money best be spent? 

Address unmet needs

Jill McArdle is European Advocacy Officer at Global Health Advocates.

The added value of EU public funding can’t be justified if it’s spent on areas of high commercial interest, where the pharma industry is already investing. Instead, we should set health research priorities according to public health priorities, focusing on unmet medical need and areas with limited market incentives to invest. Examples include poverty-related and neglected diseases such as tuberculosis and HIV/AIDS, which still kill millions of people worldwide, including in the EU.

The EU’s public-private partnerships in health are dominated by private interests, making it all the more important that the next big effort must be made to work in the public interest. We need to strengthen the role of independent scientific advice and strike a real balance among stakeholders, including civil society. This is especially important if these partnerships cover sensitive topics such as the regulation of health data and the ways we pay for innovation. Also essential is better transparency, along with stricter rules on financial contributions from industry and limits on “opt outs“ from open access requirements for commercial reasons.

Ensure equitable access

Caroline Costongs is director of EuroHealthNet.

Given that this is a large pot of public money, it’s vital that research results contribute to well-being, with long-term and sustainable impacts felt by all Europeans. To that end, we need to make sure that equity and social fairness are addressed across health research activities.

Our society is changing quickly. Rising inequality, social polarization, demographic shifts, urbanization, perceived security threats, digitization, technological advances and the climate crisis all have potentially huge implications for public health and equity. Health authorities are desperately looking for evidence-based and effective policy responses so they can turn these challenges into positive opportunities. But health research risks lagging behind.

There’s increasing awareness that health systems alone cannot address complex health challenges, but mainstream funding tends to over-prioritize biomedical research and innovation. The risk is that insufficient attention will be given to public health, health promotion, disease prevention and research that links health and well-being to wider societal developments. The commercial determinants of health — with powerful multinationals monopolizing markets — are among the most difficult ones to address. The digital marketing to children, the depletion of environmental resources and the unethical use of (health) data are examples of priority areas that would merit research budgets.

Health research is an immense field. As we argue over who gets what, we need to make sure we’re all pulling in the same direction to improve health and well-being. An equity-focused, holistic approach that engages a wide range of stakeholders across society can form the common thread.

Don’t forget rare diseases

Simone Boselli is public affairs director at the European Organisation for Rare Diseases.

We must not overlook rare diseases — which affect 30 million Europeans — as we discuss research priorities for the next Commission. These diseases are highly complex, progressive and severely disabling, affecting life expectancy and generating specific care needs. Due to their low prevalence, little is known about most of them. As a result, they’re poorly diagnosed and their symptoms are under-recognized in healthcare and social systems.

Rare diseases have already become a research-funding priority area, given the added value of cross-country and multidisciplinary cooperation and the latter’s contribution to innovation and competitiveness. But further efforts are necessary, as most rare diseases lack effective treatments. The unmet medical needs of people living with rare diseases are still vast.

Research funding should be addressed in three key areas. The first is improving diagnosis by harnessing the potential of digital technologies. The second is delivering high quality healthcare by researching the clinical efficacy and financial effectiveness of virtual healthcare such as the European Reference Networks (ERNs) to support national health systems. The third is developing treatments by funding research to understand the mechanisms underlying rare diseases and better identify therapeutic targets.

 

Focus on the practical

Sibylle Reichert is executive director of the International Association of Mutual Benefit Societies.

When we speak about research priorities, we should think of e-health and innovation — for example, efforts to improve health apps, enhance the interoperability of e-records, or use data to improve care.  We also should look at pharmaceutical advances, such as how to incentivize research in areas where investment is lacking. Good examples include antimicrobial resistance, orphan drugs, pediatric medicines and new and better ways to administer vaccines.

Research on healthcare systems is also important, especially if we want to ensure they’re sustainable amid changes in the labor market and in the broader population. This means tackling the financing of long-term care and addressing persistent staff shortages. Finally, we need to better understand how to implement useful innovation so that it reaches as many people as possible. Too much money is invested in pilot projects that offer interesting results but offer few practical applications. We should also learn more about the efficiency of health promotion and disease prevention policies. That includes pushing to develop digital health literacy and gathering evidence on the cost-effectiveness of prevention, as well as better understanding health insurance markets and their economic contribution.

Don’t skimp on funding

Otmar D. Wiestler is president of the Helmholtz Association of German Research Centers.

This budget — which is under threat — is urgently needed in its full amount. Biomedical research is among the grand challenges that can be addressed only on a pan-European scale. The timely “cancer mission,” with its clear focus, is a perfect example of EU-added value, and other important topics, like dementia, must not be forgotten. We need cross-border collaboration among the best European experts in fundamental biomedical research to achieve groundbreaking advances.

One important concept is translational research — going all the way from lab bench to bedside. When we better understand diseases and their underlying mechanisms, we can come up with solutions for targeted disease prevention, diagnosis, treatment and therapy. Such solutions should be more personalized, which requires the development or expansion of federated data banks. Just think of the small number of cases when it comes to rare diseases.

Personalized medicine also requires innovative data analysis technologies. However, all this depends on a solid funding. Only if the EU members commit to a strong Horizon Europe will we be able to bring forward EU health research and position it at the forefront of international developments.

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Parliament delays Italian trainees for 7 months over coronavirus fears

Decision affects 35 internships that were supposed to start Monday.

The European Parliament has told graduates from Northern Italy due to start internships from Monday at the institution that they cannot come until October following the region’s coronavirus outbreak.

A email sent to trainees on Tuesday stated that anybody listing an address in one of four Italian regions — Lombardy, Piedmont, Emilia Romagna and Veneto — on their application would not be permitted to come in the March intake.

“In your application to our traineeship programme you declared to have an address in one of the areas concerned and unfortunately, for this reason, the European Parliament is not in the measure to allow you to start you internship on 01/03,” read the email sent from Parliament’s directorate-general for personnel, seen by POLITICO.

The Parliament confirmed that the decision, which also covers individuals from China, Singapore or South Korea, will affect 35 trainees.

It said the decision was “part of its duty of care and in line with the precautionary measures for staff” regarding the virus outbreak.

That’s despite the fact that President David Sassoli said in a tweet Wednesday afternoon that “nothing is definitive,” and that the Parliament’s administration was assessing the situation.

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The Parliament offers the five-month traineeships to around 900 university graduates a year, with intakes in the spring and the fall. The email said those affected would be eligible for a contract in the next round, from October to February 2021.

“We are very disappointed, as we already planned our life in Brussels for the next five months,” said one trainee from Lombardy, who asked to remain anonymous to avoid any impact on her future placement. “Many of us declined job offers to do the traineeship.”

The trainee said she had received an apologetic phone call from her supervisor in Parliament, who guaranteed her offer would be valid from October. She hopes to find a job at home in the meantime, which won’t be easy given the current situation in the region. “If you live in Lombardy,” she said, “the next month will be critical.”

Both the European Commission and Parliament told staff who traveled to affected Italian areas to work from home for 14 days, according to internal communications seen by POLITICO.

A planned visit to Northern Italy by the Parliament’s Committee for Industry, Research and Energy due to take place earlier this week was postponed on Sunday, German MEP Henrike Hahn told POLITICO — a decision she described as “reasonable.”

“The decision to postpone the ITRE mission to Northern Italy has been based on the official communication from the local government in the Lombardy region,” she said in an email.

Jillian Deutsch and Paola Tamma contributed reporting.

This story has been updated. 

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Commission to Parliament: Let’s calm down on EU makeover

Executive takes more cautious line on conference on the future of Europe.

The European Parliament has been getting rather excited about the “Conference on the Future of Europe.” The European Commission? A bit less.

In a draft of the Commission’s vision on “shaping the Conference on the Future of Europe,” seen by POLITICO ahead of its release on Wednesday, the EU’s executive arm is open to, but rather cautious about, the idea of remodeling the EU as a “new public forum” aimed at “enabling EU citizens to shape EU policies.”

“The Conference cannot be a simple stocktaking exercise,” says the Commission text. But it doesn’t go anywhere near as far as a resolution adopted by MEPs last week that called for consultations with citizens, through so-called agoras involving 200 to 300 people from across EU countries.

The Parliament also called for several bodies to be set up as part of the project, including a “Conference Plenary,” a “steering committee,” and an “executive board” — picking Guy Verhofstadt, the former Belgian prime minister and current liberal MEP, to lead the process.

The Commission doesn’t go into that level of detail on governance and doesn’t mention personnel.

“The reflection process of the Commission does not go as far as ours,” said Daniel Freund, a German Green MEP. “But my reading is rather positive as it allows for everything the Parliament had asked for,” he said, adding that the new Commission, which took office in December, “hasn’t had the time yet” to go into details on the conference.

French President Emmanuel Macron came up with the idea for the conference last year, arguing it should “propose all the necessary changes to our political project, without any taboos, not even treaty revision.”

Ursula von der Leyen, the Commission president, made setting up the conference, which is slated to start in 2020 and run for two years, one of her priorities. She has made clear the exercise would explore institutional changes, including improving the Spitzenkandidat — or lead candidate — system for choosing a Commission president, establishing transnational lists of MEPs and reforming Council decision-making.

The Parliament was the first EU institution to set out its ideas for the conference, backing an ambitious resolution by 494 votes to 147 (with 49 abstentions).

At last week’s meeting of Parliament leaders — known as the Conference of Presidents — senior MEPs agreed to set up a five-strong Executive Coordination Board featuring members from three political families — European People’s Party, Socialists & Democrats and Renew Europe — plus representatives from the Commission and Council.

Instead of the Parliament’s idea for “agoras,” the Commission proposes building on the “well-established” Citizens’ Dialogues, but adds that it is “ready to explore” effective ways of engaging citizens in EU policymaking.

“The success of the Conference will largely depend on how effectively and widely it is communicated to Europeans,” says the Commission text.

The Council has shown little enthusiasm for the idea. At a European Council meeting in Brussels in December, leaders of the EU’s member countries signed off on conclusions that showed they were not overly thrilled by the concept.

Besides France, to a lesser extent Germany and a few others, many EU diplomats have expressed skepticism about how effective the exercise is likely to be, and are wary of any talk of changing the EU’s governing treaties.

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