Press releases
“100 million patients across the EU choose homeopathy as part of their health care. It is time for the European institutions to fully acknowledge the importance of this safe and effective therapy for so many European citizens. Homeopathy should be firmly integrated into EU health policy.”
Marian Harkin MEP
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“En réalité, que cherche le patient?” s'interroge Colette PRADELLE, présidente l'Association des Patients de la Médecine Anthroposophique (APMA) ”sinon la prise en charge personnelle de sa maladie et le libre choix des types de thérapies et des médicaments”.
Ria Oomen-Ruijten MEP endorses the importance of this initiative: “EU citizens, patients, doctors and practitioners should have access to the medicines of their choice. EU legislation should ensure the free movement of homeopathic medicinal products.”
European Parliament discusses patients’ rights in cross-border healthcare
Together for better healthcare in the EU: Complementary medical treatment must be fully recognised
“There is increasing disharmony between Member States in the field of homeopathy and anthroposophic medicine, where healthcare providers and services are excluded from the benefits of free trade and free circulation. Patients and consumers can obtain their services and products only from those Member States which have put in place appropriate legal provisions.”
Nand de Herdt
ECHAMP General Secretary
Directive on patients’ rights in cross-border healthcare: EU health ministers discuss at informal Council on Tuesday in Angers, France
Together for better healthcare in the EU: Complementary medical treatment must be fully recognised
“The lack of clarity and legal certainty surrounding cross-border healthcare in the EU has caused many patients confusion and uncertainty at a vulnerable time in their lives”.
John Bowis MEP, rapporteur in the European Parliament on the new cross-border healthcare Directive
European patients, doctors, practitioners and industry call on Slovenian government to make homeopathy more widely available
Slovenian version:
Bolniki, zdravniki, zdravilci in izdelovalci homeopatskih zdravil iz EU pozivajo vlado RS Slovenije, naj omogoči večjo dostopnost do homeopatije
‘Patients should be free to choose the therapy they want, doctors should be free to prescribe the medicines they believe are needed and homeopathic medicinal products should be widely available for those who want and need them across the EU.'
Max Daege, President of ECHAMP
First EU Homeopathy Day held in Brussels
'...there is an urgent need for a new debate on and the full recognition of homeopathy and homeopathic medicinal products as part of healthcare in the European Union.'
The European market for homeopathic and anthroposophic medicines continues to thrive despite regulatory restrictions - new publication from ECHAMP Facts & Figures, Second Edition 2007
The European market for homeopathic and anthroposophic medicinal products accounts for approximately 7% of the European non-prescription pharmaceutical market, or 1% of the total European pharmaceutical market.
'We shall continue to push for proper regulation at European level in order to achieve greater integration of homeopathic and anthroposophic medicine in the European context.’
Dr Klaus Theo Schröder, German Secretary of State for Health
The Hidden Roots: Homeopathy's strong roots in Northern and Eastern Europe rediscovered
A new survey shows that there is a strong tradition of use of homeopathy by medical doctors even in the newer parts of the European Union.
'The 7th Framework Program provides an excellent opportunity for the EU to dedicate funding to further validate the benefits of complementary medicine.'
John Bowis MEP
Focus on the precarious future of homeopathic and anthorposophic medicinal products for 110 million European patients
Inappropriate EU-legislation on homeopathic and anthroposophic medicinal products results in about 100 000 pending dossiers in the EU