The creation of a " Europe of health must become our priority ", said Emmanuel Macron on Monday during a press conference with Angela Merkel on the European response to the coronavirus crisis.
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“ Our aim is to provide Europe with very concrete skills in the area of health. With common stocks of masks and tests, joint and coordinated purchasing capacities for treatments and vaccines, shared epidemic prevention plans, common methods of identifying cases. This Europe of health never existed, it must become our priority ”, declared the French president to the press.