Interactive map of activities
The outcomes of the deliberate choice to impose responsibilities of the European Union (EU) on Member States through austerity policies are being illustrated by the current failure of health care systems and public services. This despite the courage and self-sacrifice demonstrated by workers. We demand that lessons of this crisis are learned now and are not lost. Health is not a cost but an investment, health is not a commodity.
The EU can still overcome this crisis by radically changing the course of this institution.
It cannot depend on directives in the hands of the European Commission and the Council of Ministers. Neither can it depend on directives of the Central Bank and the International Monetary Fund, which have reduced the EU to a mere economic control entity imposing austerity that only serves international finance and industry.
The EU must become a political entity responsible for organizing social solidarity between people. And this social solidarity should be based on strong public services that can cope with the hazards of life and guarantee access to common services for the entire population. The Parliament, as the representative body of the people, must have a preponderant role in the organization of this solidarity.
This is the cost for which a political and social Europe can have a future. We call for solidarity between people for the opening of borders and for an awareness of our common destiny: a universal public health service.
For Europe we demand a public health service that is based on solidarity and that is universal and accessible to all, everywhere.
7 April is World Health Day.
We call on you to show your support by "spreading solidarity, not the virus" with a "white sheet" action on 7 April:
1. Hang your messages on a white sheet in a visible place or make a poster at home
2. Take a picture/video of yourself with your messages
3. Share them
on social networks with the hashtag #health4all and send it to your policy makers.
on the interactive map here bit.ly/Agir4Health
(How? Follow the link of the interactive map - write the address of your location - click on "add to map" - add an image or video)
At the initiative of
European Network against the Privatization and Commercialization of Health and Social Protection
http://europe-health-network.net
europeanhealthnetwork@gmail.com
https://www.facebook.com/events/549550719025438/
Supporting international coordinations and networks
Alter Summit, European Federation of Public Service Unions EPSU, People’s Health Movement, Uni Global Union – UNICARE, Réseau Syndical International de Solidarité et de Luttes, Society for International Development SID
And the 160 co-signatories
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