Biannual briefing – September 2025

This briefing covers the first half of 2025 and outlines priorities set on the European Union’s agenda that are likely to have an impact on Member States’ healthcare systems.

• The first section presents the legislative acts that the European Commission introduced in the areas of cybersecurity and critical medicines.

• The second part describes the priorities targeted by the Polish Presidency of the Council of the EU on three levels: follow-up of ongoing legislative files; formal and informal Council meetings; national and international conferences.

• The third part looks ahead to the second half of 2025 and provides an overview of the programme announced by the Danish Presidency of the Council.
  

This series of biannual briefings focuses on the strategies proposed by the European Commission in the health sector, but also in related sectors that may have an impact on the organisation and financing of healthcare, such as social and employment policies, economic and research policies, the internal market, etc. It also examines the position and priorities of the Member States, reviewing the work carried out by each rotating Presidency of the Council of the European Union.