Amalie Holmgaard Mersh
@AmalieMersh
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Freelance journalist 🇩🇰🇬🇧 | EU/European health, environment, climate | Leading Editor for Northern Europe @ The European Correspondent 📧[email protected]
Hamburg, Germany
Joined December 2013
If I didn’t have a German husband to make stern phone calls and write strongly worded emails on my behalf, I swear I would never get the medical treatment I need. Or any other service for that matter 😅 Kudos to anyone navigating the German system without a German by their side.
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Europe's house prices have long been red hot - now they're sinking, unravelling fastest in places like #Sweden. Could it be a harbinger for worse to come? Read our take on @Reuters
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Sweden's government is ready to step in to stem the fallout from a property rout if tumbling prices cause a wider crisis - a potential harbinger of trouble across Europe.
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Now confirmed that the #Eurovision Reference Group will take a decision on whether to entirely scrap the juries by January. This was being considered even before the controversy over Sweden’s win this year, and has more to do with what happened in 2022.
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It has been confirmed that the European Broadcasting Union is assessing changes to the jury voting system for the Eurovision Song Contest.
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Exclusive @POLITICOEurope : Commission President Ursula von der Leyen plans to double the EU executive's communication budget to €60 million next year — by siphoning off money from funds like research or Erasmus. She brought in yet another German aide to steer the project... 1/
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The emission figures on which European policies regarding nitrogen, climate, and water are based are incomplete and contain errors. ‘New’ hazardous substances are not included, and entire sectors record nothing. https://t.co/nv6CaXLwXo
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The official European and Dutch emission registrations show large gaps. The figures industries must provide are incomplete, are calculated instead of measured, and many companies and entire sectors...
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The EU's nature restoration law, explained with fire 🔥 1. An accurate depiction today's vote
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If China attacks Taiwan … and we sanctioned it like we did Russia, the pharmaceutical market would be turned upside down,” said Gian Paolo Negrisoli, chief executive of pharmaceutical manufactur Flamma Group. "Everyone knows it — maybe they don't say it."
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Europe relies on China for the production of certain key drugs such as antibiotics.
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Hundreds of abandoned oil and gas platforms remain in the North Sea. Decommissioning would cost billions, postponing the cleanup job helps fossil giants to profit from their assets in the North Sea. #NorthSeaInvestigations
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The North Sea is littered with hundreds of drilling platforms, thousands of gas and oil wells and tens of thousands of kilometres of pipelines – all soon to be decommissioned. But whether this fossil...
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How the EU Commission and national governments delete official emails and text messages — creating areas of decision-making without oversight and control. #missingmails
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💥 Breaking The EU Parliament set to prevent Hungary to hold the presidency of the Council, given its well established departure from the EU foundational values and ‘rules of the game’ #euco #RuleOfLaw @GoodLobbyProfs
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Good news on #RareDisease: @EU_Health's Anna-Eva Ampelas confirmed that the revision of #orphandrugs rules - which would come along with other key actions in the EU's pharmaceutical strategy - will be presented next month. @AmalieMersh has the story: https://t.co/xoYW5mxPyn
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Without providing a specific date, a Commission representative told MEPs in the European Parliament’s health committee (ENVI) that they expect to adopt the proposal for a revision of the orphan...
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🚨💉COVID-19 vaccines, Pfizer and the European Commission, the saga continues. @AmalieMersh and I summarized the latest news👇 Health Brief: Playing with... Pfizer 🔥– @EURACTIV
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#TeamEurope spirit should be there for the forthcoming #EUGlobalHealthStrategy to work, @EU_Health chief @SandraGallina told @EURACTIV's @AmalieMersh in an exclusive interview on this important part of the EU #GlobalGateway. Check it out: https://t.co/hq0rg02opO
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The forthcoming EU global strategy for health will rely less on development policy, unlike in the past, and focus more on pure health issues, Commission's health policy 'number-two' told EURACTIV in...
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👀👀Spotted in Gastein: @EURACTIV's health reporters @GPeseckyt and @AmalieMersh... If you are among the lucky ones at the #EHFG2022, don't forget to say hi to them between one plenary and another...
⏱️ 30 minutes until the first #EHFG2022 Plenary! Europe in permacrisis – pandemic, climate, war Join the live stream here: https://t.co/GShSFLhqbq
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⚠️SCOOP: MEPs in the @EP_Justice committee will share the competencies on the European Health Data Space (#EHDS) with their fellow colleagues in the @EP_Environment! @EURACTIV #health reporter @AmalieMersh brings you the latest on this crucial file: https://t.co/beqQaSuIMy
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Despite the initial decision to assign the European Health Data Space exclusively to the European Parliament’s civil liberties committee (LIBE), it has now been agreed that the committee for health...
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Contact tracing, vaccination, infection prevention and clear risk communication campaigns must be among the EU's priorities in dealing with #monkeypox, EU health chief @SKyriakidesEU said in a letter seen by @EURACTIV. 👇@GPeseckyt and @AmalieMersh report https://t.co/fUwTglh5dK
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Following the World Health Organisation (WHO)’s declaration of monkeypox as a 'public health emergency of international concern', EU Health Commissioner Stella Kyriakides has sent a letter to EU...
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The EU has to offer Ukraine "top-quality healthcare," according to 🇨🇿 health minister @vlvalek, who told @EURACTIV it is "not only ethically important to do this but also necessary". Read more in this exclusive interview by @gerardofortuna & @AmalieMersh
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Cancer screening, negotiations on long-term COVID-19 vaccine contracts, the European Health Data Space (but not all of it), and the care of Ukrainians will be the main priorities of the Czech...
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Text messages between European Commission President @vonderleyen and the CEO of pharmaceutical giant Pfizer, Albert Bourla, have somehow mysteriously vanished... @AmalieMersh has more on the latest chapter of this COVID vaccine related drama
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Say something, I'm giving up on you, MEPs sing to the Commission. (Composed by @AmalieMersh) https://t.co/kdmo3GStZy
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After three hearings with no less than three Commissioners, it is clear that MEPs in the recently set European Parliament's special committee on the COVID-19 pandemic (COVI) will have to be persist...
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