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After months of shameful right-wing stalling and delaying tactics, the European Parliament approved a resolution to tackle the AIDS epidemic which includes a Left demand for waiving intellectual property rights on Covid-19 vaccines.
The proposal championed by Left MEPs also demands the waiving of intellectual property rights for equipment and other treatments, urging pharmaceutical companies to share their knowledge and data through the World Health Organization COVID-19 Technology Access Pool (C-TAP).
“After months of intense campaigning, the Left group in the European Parliament has won a decisive victory in the global fight to remove patents’ barriers and make vaccines a common good,” said the Left’s Co-President
Co-President
Manon Aubry (France Insoumise, France) said:
“The process of defining the role and composition of the assembly for the upcoming Conference on Future of Europe has taken too long and has underlined the difficulties and limits of the proposed framework in providing the profound changes that the EU requires.”
“What we really need is the broad involvement of citizens, which will lead to a clear change of rules and new EU treaties which have failed to address the climate and social crisis.”
Co-President
Martin Schirdewan (Die Linke, Germany) added:
”The Conference on the Future of Europe is threatening to degenerate into a mere talking shop. The European institutions have been arguing for over a year about what the Conference should and is allowed to do. What falls by the wayside is the actual goal of the Conference, namely to give citizens, trade unions, social movements and NGOs a voice in our democracy. So far, the only thing that we can agree on is t