Malta Bids For EMA, Citing Quality Of Life, Healthcare, And Small Pharma Industry
Executive Summary
Malta has joined the ever-growing number of countries wanting to host the European Medicines Agency when it relocates from the UK post-Brexit. The European Commission has said new “technical issues” have been raised that will need to be addressed, and industry bodies have outlined the criteria they say need to be met by the future host country.
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