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Creating a European Health Union in times of COVID-19: a trajectory towards a fundamental right to health care?
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Abstract
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| COVID-19 appears to have provided the European Union (EU, the Union) with a window of opportunity to infiltrate the arena of policy-making in the field of health, which is evident in the proliferation of initiatives under the auspices of the creation of a European Health Union (EHU). To that effect, one of the first steps taken has been inter alia the Commission proposal for a regulation on serious cross-border health threats, which, if adopted, seeks to repeal an existing decision on the same issue. However, how influential can the EHU initiative be post-pandemic ? This contribution seeks to discover what the role of COVID-19 has been for the materialisation of an EHU and what the implications are (if there are any) for the future of European health care. By combining an interest-based and structuralist narrative on the recognition of a right to health care, this contribution argues that COVID-19 has given the EU a marginal opportunity to prove its ability to act on health threats. Success in doing so may contribute towards resolving the joint-decision trap by providing the Member States with confidence in the EU as a health actor. |
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Language
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English
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Source (book)
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European Yearbook on Human Rights 2021 / Czech, Philip [edit.]; et al.
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Source (series)
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European Yearbook on Human Rights
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Publication
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Cambridge
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Intersentia
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2021
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ISBN
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978-1-83970-162-7
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p. 137-158
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Full text (publisher's version - intranet only)
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