We argue that the EU needs a more robust policy framework for the centralized procurement, storage and allocation of medical countermeasures against a pandemic, such as COVID-19. We conducted a survey before the COVID-19 outbreak to assess Dutch citizens' attitudes towards such a centralized...

In a time where the European Union (EU) project is politically more contested than ever, integration in the field of health continues, not faltered by the current ‘constraining dissensus'. This paradoxical continuing development, has been explained by a ‘permissive dissensus', where the...