Quest For ‘It Factor’ Continues In Competition For EMA After Brexit
Executive Summary
The many cities that want to host the European Medicines Agency when it moves from London to another member state in light of Brexit are working hard to come up with a determining factor that will make them the obvious choice. It may on the surface seem strange, but Ireland is making much of the fact that if its capital city Dublin were chosen, existing EMA staff wouldn’t need to move there.
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