Shorouk Express
When most of us were sleeping, the European Parliament and Council were hammering out a deal on the Pharma Package – a combined 400 articles in a regulation and directive. After eleven hours of intense negotiations on the fifth floor (5G3, to be precise), the deal was delivered.The last eleven hours are the endgame in over two years of negotiations, starting in the last mandate and a previous parliament. In the meantime, the EU has been faced with profound geopolitical challenges. In 2025, this has taken the form of a chilling in trans-Atlantic trade relations and concerns over what Trump terms “most favoured nation pricing”, claiming that European countries are receiving an unfair price advantage in medicines…
