The Diplomat
The Minister of Foreign Affairs, José Manuel Albares, and the Minister of Health, Carolina Darias, participated yesterday in Lyon in the joint ministerial conference of the European Union, in which they called for “Europe to continue to lead in a joint and coordinated manner the response to the health crises of the present and the future”.
The joint conference of European Union foreign and health ministers was convened in “an unprecedented format” initiated by the French Presidency of the Council of the EU and “marks a new stage on the road to a Europe of Health”, according to the Quai d’Orsay.
The meeting, which was chaired by the French Ministers of Foreign Affairs, Jean-Yves Le Drian, and Health, Olivier Véran, served to draw “lessons from the work carried out by the European Union in the face of the pandemic crisis, in particular with regard to the purchase and donation of vaccines, treatments, diagnostics, production capacities and the reinforcement of health systems”, it added.
During her speech, Darias defended “the need for Europe to continue to lead in a joint and coordinated way the response to the health crises of the present and the future with the European Health Union,” as she reported on her official Twitter account. “Spain participates in this effort through donations, sharing scientific knowledge and with a very high national vaccination rate,” Albares stated through the same social network.
