newsitems EU Health Commissioner Borg+EUParliament V.President Angellili to EuroFora: Prevent=Save Lives+Money
EU Health Commissioner Borg+EUParliament V.President Angellili to EuroFora: Prevent=Save Lives+Money
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- "EuroFora" pointed at "a Topical Question both in Europe and in many other Countries in the World", (f.ex. including in the recent U.S. Presidential and Congress Election Debates, etc), raised by "many Debates about Costs of Health Care and related Social Security Systems, which are Growing almost everywhere" in the western world, (some People and/or Politicians accusing mainly the Users, or a Technocratic Lobby, and others the pre-existing Health Care Systems, alone or in combination with one or more of those factors, some claiming that it might be inevitable, etc).
- "Do you think that facilitating People's access to Prevention might help to Save Human Lives while also avoiding otherwise growing Costs, by making more Efficient and cost-effective the Health Protection System, both in the sector that you mentioned, about Ageing Populations and Women, but also more widely, for all People ?", "EuroFora" asked the new EU Health Commissioner and EU Parliament's Rapporteur.
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- "Well, the Figures on the Health System are obviously very High", agreed from the outset in reply to "EuroFora"'s query EU Parliament's vice-President, Italian MEP Angellili, whose Report on "Age-related Diseases of Women" and Prevention was just adopted by a large Majority of MEPs.
- "It's 9% of EU's GDP, and this is going to increase in the next few years, also because of the Ageing Population", EU Parliament's competent Rapporteur warned.
=> "One of the (EU) Priorities is to Invest in Information and Prevention. Just to give you an example : According to Scientific Data, Breast Screaning, we can reach 70% of Women, and, if we manage to achieve that in real practice, then, it's some 30% of Breast Cancer risks that could be prevented. So, in other words, we could reduce by -30% Mortality due to Breast Cancer", revealed Angellili.
>>> "So, Prevention is Fundamental", EU Parliament's vice-President, and Rapporteur, stressed.
- "But I could also give you more examples, f.ex. from colo-rectal cancer, Cardio-Vascular diseases, where there is a prejudice ; a wrong impression that Women might be not affected, but, in fact, it's 50% Deaths for Women and only 43% for Men, concerning People over 50" years of age, etc.
+ => In consequence, "We have to make (EU) Member States understand that investing a little bit more in Prevention means not only Saving Human Lives, and not only Helping People to age better, .. but it also means Saving Money", she added also later-on.
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- "If we look at the Figures, all (EU) Member States, between them, dedicate 97 % of their Budgets for Cure, but only 3% for Prevention !", new EU Health Commissioner Borg denounced from the outset, in his response to "EuroFora"s question.
- "So, (until now) there is a Huge Difference between the two Figures", he observed. In consequence, "let's Hope that the Prevention percentage will Increase", he urged.
+ "Often, EU Commission is asked "which Particuiar Disease are you going to Fight against, or to combat during these next years ? Of course, there are some obvious ones, like Cancer and HIV, etc."
- "But, our (EU's) attitude is more General", Borg pointed out : - "It's : -"Let's fight at first the Risk Factors, that Provoke Diseases : F.ex. Alcool, Tobacco consumption (f.ex., as you know, we have launched Consultations for the Tobacco Directive", etc), Obesity, but also the lack of Physical Activities", (etc),
=> - "That's the mark that (EU) Commission would like to promote in its Health Program, with the little Funds that we have : Practically it's 2 € per Inhabitant in the EU... So, it's not much, but we'll try to do our very Best, with these Limited Resources, (mainly) to Fight Disease Risks, through Education, information, and other programs", the new EU Health Commissioner anounced in Conclusion to his Reply to "EuroFora"s question.
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+ "Peuple live Longer. That's a good thing, but it puts strain into our Health Systems. ..You can immediately realise which Chronic Diseases are concerned. .. (F.ex. cataracts, demensia, eye operations, hip replacement, etc. ) It's not that there are mode diseases, but it's just the Ageing that is increading the incidences. .. If we don't Prevent these things, ...our Costs in our Health Systems will, indeed, increase", Borg added later-on, clarifying the Warning that he launched.
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ECHR's President to "EuroFora" on Journalists Gongadze and Adali murders : Principles must apply to all States, without discrimination.
+ ECHR's Statistics on Freedom of Expression (See below).
European Court of Human Rights' President, Jean-Paul Costa, questioned by "EuroFora" on Journalists' murders, as in Gongadze and Adali's cases etc., strongly stressed all CoE Member States' obligation to make efficient Investigations to find and punish those responsible, and underlined that ECHR's case-law's principles must apply to all without any discrimination.
His call was clearly supported by various Top MEPs who denounced a risk of "Double Standards" if some Journalists' murders are investigated, while others don't.
To avoid such risks, CoE's Parliamentary Assembly adopted a Resolution, on the occasion of Ukranian Journalist Gongadze's murder, "stressing", as a matter of general Principle, "the importance it attaches to the safety of Journalists and political activists, especially those linked to opposition groups, in ALL member states of the CoE". All "crimes against journalists and political activists must be investigated ... as a matter of priority, without political interference".
Costa was replying to "EuroFora"s question on the fact that, after CoE's Committee of Ministers, also CoE's Assembly had just adopted a Resolution on Gongadze murder case, based on an ECHR's judgement of 2005, asking a full Investigation from Ukraine, who has found and condemned in 10 years of jail 2 executants, but not yet the instigators.
While nothing similar was yet done for dissident Turkish Cypriot Kutlu Adali's murder, with 5 bullets shot at his head out of his Family's home in the territories of Cyprus occupied by Ankara's army, despite another ECHR's judgement of the same year 2005, and despite Turkey's claim that nobody was found among those responsible for the murder, and that there was nothing more to do..
In order to be credible and efficient, CoE's mechanisms shouldn't find a way to at least ask for full investigations of all Journalists' murders anywhere they might be committed, without exceptions ?
- "On the larger question that you raised, I'd like to say, since we are in a period of stock-taking on ECHR's 50 Years, that the Court's case-law developed certain concepts ....such as the Positive obligations of States, part of which are also the procedural obligations", started to reply ECHR's President.
- "Whenever Journalists, Lawyers, Defenders of Human Rights, or even simple Citizens are murdered, the States are held responsible, not only if its their own security forces' agents who committed these murders, but also if they didn't make sufficiently substantial and efficient Investigations", he stressed.
- "I want to strongly underline that we (ECHR) have found in many cases numerous violations of Articles 2 and 3 against States, ....(about) murders or torture, ...because they didn't make enough Investigations in order to try to find and punish those responsible".
- "We (ECHR) do that vis-a-vis all 47 (CoE) Member States, without any discrimination".
"Naturally, the circumstances in each particular case may be differend, and we can't ommit to apply the rules of proof, or the rules of criminal procedure".
"But we try, by all means, to apply these principles of our case-law, to all States", he concluded.
Costa's call was strongly supported by several Top CoE MEPs, from various Political areas
- "To investigate the murder of one Journalist, and not of another, looks like Double Standards", denounced the President of EuroLeft Group in CoE's Assembly, Dutch MEP Tiny Cox.
- "What is the reason ? Politics or specificity of a case ? Of course, if Cyprus and Turkey are involved, it's always a Political case"..
- "Murders of Journalists should always be fully investigated, because killing Journalists is not only killing persons, but also killing Free Press". "We (CoE's Assembly) should do our outmost to help People who are working on Free Press and they are under threat or murdered".
Because for Free Politics, Free Press is a pre-requisitive : Parliamentarians cannot function without a Free Press. Not investigating, is not protecting ourselves".
So we should investigate all Journalists' murders : We are talking about Gongadze, about the Cypriot man (Adali), about the Journalist murdered in Moscow one week ago, etc", Cox concluded
- "CoE can' look at these cases differently. CoE can't wear Blinckers !".
- "If the one is investigated, so has to be also the other. Why there wasn't full investigation ? Why's that ?", wondered British Socialist MEP, Alan Meale.
- "A good idea" would be to "make a Motion for Resolution", and "join all Journalists' murders. Adali and Gongadze etc", said to "EuroFora" EU Parliament Political affairs Committee's President, Goran Lindbland, ChristianDemocrat MEP from Sweden.
(See also earlier News at "EuroFora" on similar issues).
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ECHR's Statistics on Freedom of Expression :
Almost Half of condemnations by ECHR for violations of Freedom of Expression in 2008, concern Turkey : 20 out of a total of 48 for all CoE's Member States.
Russia, Poland, France and Moldova were condemned only 3 times. Romania, Greece, Portugal, 2 times, and the other CoE Member States only 1 time, or none.
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During the last Decade : 1998 - 2008, Turkey was condemned for violating Freedom of Expression in ..169 cases, while Austria only in 24.
France and Moldova in 14 and 13, respectively, closely followed by Russia and Poland with 11 and 10, respectively. The rest of CoE Member States had less than ten condemnations.