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President of the European Commission Ursula von der Leyen and EU governments and leaders

This petition is run by WeMove Europe

Petition

We call on the European Union to make the COVID-19 vaccines and treatments a good accessible to everyone, everywhere. The EU should :

  • Release all patents and licences of the anti-pandemic vaccines and treatments;
  • Make public all contracts between public EU authorities and pharmaceutical companies;
  • Ensure that vaccines and treatments are affordable and accessible for all.

Why is this important?

For the last year, our personal sacrifices were meant to prevent Covid from spreading further and save lives. In the meantime our governments injected public money, our money, into pharmaceutical companies to develop treatment.

We have that now. And despite the battle unfolding between the EU and AstraZeneca, the fact is this: there are plenty of places around the world where the vaccine and treatments can be produced and plenty of companies willing to produce them.

So what’s blocking production? A patent.

Instead of making sure the ingredients for these vaccines and treatments we funded were public, allowing for everyone to produce them, and save millions of lives in Europe and worldwide, we basically can’t access something we paid for.

Already in the European Parliament some are calling for this patent to be made public. Charles Michel, President of the European Council, just joined this call. And if tens of thousands of us come together and join those calls, it could be exactly what’s needed for Europe’s leaders to stand up to the likes of big pharma and reclaim what’s ours. Are you in?

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