The coronavirus pandemic has had a devastating impact on the economy. If you are one of the 59 million workers in Europe whose job is under threat because of the lockdown measures, the EU is doing what it can to help. Here’s how.

This is what Europe does for workers at risk of losing their jobs because of the coronavirus crisis

The special committee BECA on beating cancer is specifically tasked with evaluating opportunities for the EU to take concrete action, identifying legislation and other measures that can help prevent and fight cancer, and looking into the best ways to support research, among others.

The special committee aims in particular to looking at actions to strengthen the approach at every key stage of the disease: prevention, diagnosis, treatment, life as a cancer survivor and palliative care, ensuring a close link with the research mission on cancer in the future Horizon Europe programme and with a focus on EU competence.

The constituent meeting will take place on Wednesday, 23 September 2020.

BECA - Special Committee on Beating Cancer

BECA Special Committee

BECA Special Committee - Turning the tide on cancer: the view of national parliaments on Europe's Beating Cancer Plan

BECA Special Committee - Strengthening Europe in the fight against cancer

BECA Special Committee - Public hearing ' Unlocking the potential of artificial intelligence in cancer research and car '

BECA Special Committee - Exchange of views  ' The impact of the COVID-19 pandemic on cancer prevention, health services and cancer patients and research : Lessons from a public health crisis '

BECA Special Committee - Public hearing ' Saving lives and improving patient outcomes: Why screening and early detection of cancer matter '

BECA Special Committee - Public hearing ' From lab to life: transforming childhood, adolescent and rare cancer care ' - Rights and needs of rare cancer and paediatric cancer patients, survivors, parents and caregivers

BECA Special Committee - Public hearing ' From lab to life: transforming childhood, adolescent and rare cancer care '- Research, treatment and care of paediatric, adolescent and rare cancer

BECA Special Committee- Exchange of views with Stella KYRIAKIDES,Commissioner for Health and Food Safety, on Europe's Beating Cancer Plan

BECA Special Committee-  Public hearing ' World cancer day: the impact of COVID19 and other health threats on cancer '

BECA Committee - Mind the Gap : for equal access to cancer medecines and treatment

BECA - Special Committee on Beating Cancer - Public hearing ' Beating cancer – empowering patients and their caregivers '..- Survivorship, Quality of Life and Caregivers

BECA - Special Committee on Beating Cancer - Public hearing ' Beating cancer – empowering patients and their caregivers '..- Patient Rights, including the right to be forgotten, as well as patient-centred healthcare systems

Special Committee on Beating Cancer

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BECA Interparliamentary Committee Meeting "Turning the tide on cancer: the view of national parliaments on Europe's Beating Cancer Plan"

Committee on Beating Cancer

Back in the days when border controls still existed in Europe, you had to have a visa or a work permit if you wanted to live and work in another country, and there was no freedom of movement or Schengen Agreement, peoples’ lives in Europe were very different to what we are used to today. Liam shares his impressions of how much Europe has changed since then. Let’s watch his video interview!

Liam: ‘We always had to be prepared ... because you could be waiting a couple of hours.’

Parliament debate and vote on measures and actions to fight cancer in the EU. Key recommendations by the Special Committee on Beating Cancer (BECA) include facilitating access to cross-border health care and clinical trials, managing shortages of cancer medicines more efficiently, and ensuring equal access to innovative drugs and treatments. Closing statements by Stella KYRIAKIDES, European Commissioner for Health and Food Safety and by Véronique TRILLET-LENOIR (Renew,FR), Rapporteur

Strengthening Europe in the fight against cancer: closing statements by Stella KYRIAKIDES, European Commissioner for Health and Food Safety and by Véronique TRILLET-LENOIR (Renew, FR), Rapporteur

Parliament debate and vote on measures and actions to fight cancer in the EU. Key recommendations by the Special Committee on Beating Cancer (BECA) include facilitating access to cross-border health care and clinical trials, managing shortages of cancer medicines more efficiently, and ensuring equal access to innovative drugs and treatments. Third part of the debate.

Strengthening Europe in the fight against cancer: MEPs debate (part 3/3)

Parliament debate and vote on measures and actions to fight cancer in the EU. Key recommendations by the Special Committee on Beating Cancer (BECA) include facilitating access to cross-border health care and clinical trials, managing shortages of cancer medicines more efficiently, and ensuring equal access to innovative drugs and treatments. Second part of the debate.

Strengthening Europe in the fight against cancer: MEPs debate (part 2/3)

Parliament debate and vote on measures and actions to fight cancer in the EU. Key recommendations by the Special Committee on Beating Cancer (BECA) include facilitating access to cross-border health care and clinical trials, managing shortages of cancer medicines more efficiently, and ensuring equal access to innovative drugs and treatments. First part of the debate.

Strengthening Europe in the fight against cancer: MEPs debate (part 1/3)

Parliament debate and vote on measures and actions to fight cancer in the EU. Key recommendations by the Special Committee on Beating Cancer (BECA) include facilitating access to cross-border health care and clinical trials, managing shortages of cancer medicines more efficiently, and ensuring equal access to innovative drugs and treatments. Opening statements by Véronique TRILLET-LENOIR (Renew, FR), Rapporteur and by Stella KYRIAKIDES, European Commissioner for Health and Food Safety. This transcript is result of an automatic process. Please check against delivery.

Strengthening Europe in the fight against cancer: opening statements by Véronique TRILLET-LENOIR (Renew, FR), Rapporteur and by Stella KYRIAKIDES, European Commissioner for Health and Food Safety

The European Parliament debated on Tuesday and adopted on Wednesday (652 votes in favour, 15 against and 27 abstentions) measures and actions to fight cancer in the EU. Key recommendations by the Special Committee on Beating Cancer (BECA), presided by Veronique TRILLET-LENOIR (Renew, FR) include facilitating access to cross-border health care and clinical trials, managing shortages of cancer medicines more efficiently, and ensuring equal access to innovative drugs and treatments. Véronique TRILLET-LENOIR stated that the EU would be faster and better equipped to bring down the prices of cancer drugs, which are very high. Stella KYRIAKIDES, the European Commissioner for Health and Food Safety, reminded that prevention is very important so that citizens can have specific recommendations on how they can reduce their risk of cancer. In general, MEPs agreed that a better cross-border cooperation is needed in the fight against cancer:

Strengthening Europe in the fight against cancer: extracts from the debate and the votes, statement by Veronique TRILLET-LENOIR (Renew, FR), Rapporteur

Véronique TRILLET-LENOIR (Renew, FR), presents her draft report "Strengthening Europe in the fight against cancer – towards a comprehensive and coordinated strategy" to the Members of the Beating Cancer Committee, in the European Parliament in Brussels. The draft proposes concrete actions and tools in the fields of health and research, including ambitious legislative proposals to reduce tobacco and alcohol consumption, promote healthy eating and regular physical activity, and encourage vaccination against certain cancers.

Strengthening Europe in the fight against cancer in BECA committee: extracts and presentation of the the draft report

Smart objects are transforming the way we interact at home, at work and in our cities, reimagining daily life. The EU cannot afford to miss the opportunities offered by such new technologies. Some studies suggest that a common EU framework on ethical aspects of AI, robotics and related technologies has the potential to bring the EU €294.9 billion in additional gross domestic product and 4.6 million additional jobs, by 2030. By taking advantage of what has already been done at the institutional level, it can still lead responsible development while maintaining ethical values and standards. The EU can then pave the way to ethical technology worldwide, while ensuring that it remains competitive. So, what if objects around us flocked together and became intelligent? Restrictions: ©The material may not be edited and must be shown entirely.

EPRS - What if objects around us flocked together and became intelligent?

Members of the Special Committee on Beating Cancer (BECA) discuss the impact of the COVID-19 pandemic on cancer prevention, health services and cancer patients and research, in the European Parliament in Brussels. Extracts from the meeting. Statements by Mark LAWLER , Co-Chair of the European Cancer Organisation Special Network on Impact of COVID-19 on Cancer, Solange PETERS, President, European Society for Medical Oncology (ESMO), Dineke ZEEGERS PAGET, Executive Director, European Public Health Association (EUPHA), Véronique TRILLET-LENOIR (Renew, FR), Co-rapporteur, and Bartosz ARŁUKOWICZ (EPP, PL), BECA Chair and Co-rapporteur.

The impact of the COVID-19 pandemic on cancer prevention, health services and cancer patients and research: extracts from BECA Committee meeting

Véronique TRILLET-LENOIR (Renew, FR), rapporteur of the Special EP Committee for Beating Cancer (BECA), gives a statement on the Europe's first Beating Cancer Plan. The plan is structured around four key areas: prevention, early detection, diagnosis and treatment, and improving quality of life. There are multiple supporting actions, along ten flagship initiatives.

Europe Beating Cancer Plan: statement by Véronique TRILLET-LENOIR (Renew, FR), rapporteur of the Special EP Committee for Beating Cancer

The Special Committee on Beating Cancer (BECA) in association with the Committee on Women's Rights and Gender Equality (FEMM) hold a public hearing on challenges and opportunities related to breast cancer, in the European Parliament in Brussels. At the end of this hearing, BECA Committee also exchange views with Stella KYRIAKIDES, Commissioner for Health and Food Safety, on Europe’s Beating Cancer Plan. Every October, the Breast Cancer Awareness Month, marked in countries across the world, helps to increase attention and support for the awareness, early detection and treatment as well as palliative care of this disease. Statement by Bartosz ARŁUKOWICZ (EPP, PL), BECA Chair.

Beating breast cancer - challenges and opportunities / Europe’s beating cancer plan: illustrative shots of the public hearing and exchange of views with Stella KYRIAKIDES and statement by Bartosz ARŁUKOWICZ (EPP, PL), BECA Chair

Constitutive meeting of the Special Committee - Beating Cancer (BECA) in Brussels: views of the first meeting, election by acclamation of Bartosz ARŁUKOWICZ (EPP, PL) as chairman and statement.

Constitutive meeting of 5 new Special Committees - Beating Cancer (BECA): illustrative shots and statement by Bartosz ARŁUKOWICZ (EPP, PL), elected Chair

The Special Committees on Foreign interference in all democratic processes in the EU (INGE), on Artificial Intelligence in a Digital Age (AIDA), on Beating Cancer (BECA) as well as the Subcommittee on Tax Matters (FISC) and the Committee of Inquiry on animal transport (ANIT) hold their constitutive meetings and elect their chairs and vice-chairs in the European Parliament in Brussels.

Constitutive meeting of 5 new Special Committees - Tax Matters (FISC): illustrative shots and statement by Paul TANG (S&D, NL), elected Chair

Constitutive meeting of 5 new Special Committees - Artificial Intelligence in a Digital Age (AIDA): illustrative shots and statement by Dragoş TUDORACHE (Renew, RO), elected Chair

Constitutive meeting of 5 new Special Committees - Foreign interference in all democratic processes in the EU (INGE): illustrative shots and statement by Raphaël GLUCKSMANN (S&D, FR), elected Chair

Constitutive meeting of 5 new Special Committees - Inquiry on animal transport (ANIT): illustrative shots and statement by Tilly METZ (Greens/EFA,LU), elected Chair

Nigerian lawyer and Sakharov Prize winner Hauwa Ibrahim discusses her work defending women and children in Nigeria's Sharia courts.

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BECA Special Committee

BECA Special Committee - Turning the tide on cancer: the view of national parliaments on Europe's Beating Cancer Plan

BECA Special Committee - Strengthening Europe in the fight against cancer

BECA Special Committee

BECA Special Committee - Public hearing ' Unlocking the potential of artificial intelligence in cancer research and car '

BECA Special Committee - Public hearing ' Unlocking the potential of artificial intelligence in cancer research and car '

BECA Special Committee - Public hearing ' Unlocking the potential of artificial intelligence in cancer research and car '

BECA Special Committee - Exchange of views ' The impact of the COVID-19 pandemic on cancer prevention, health services and cancer patients and research : Lessons from a public health crisis '

BECA Special Committee - Public hearing ' Saving lives and improving patient outcomes: Why screening and early detection of cancer matter '

BECA Special Committee - Public hearing ' From lab to life: transforming childhood, adolescent and rare cancer care ' - Rights and needs of rare cancer and paediatric cancer patients, survivors, parents and caregivers

BECA Special Committee - Public hearing ' From lab to life: transforming childhood, adolescent and rare cancer care '- Research, treatment and care of paediatric, adolescent and rare cancer

BECA Special Committee- Exchange of views with Stella KYRIAKIDES,Commissioner for Health and Food Safety, on Europe's Beating Cancer Plan

BECA Special Committee- Public hearing ' World cancer day: the impact of COVID19 and other health threats on cancer '

BECA Committee - Mind the Gap : for equal access to cancer medecines and treatment

BECA Committee - Mind the Gap : for equal access to cancer medecines and treatment

BECA - Special Committee on Beating Cancer - Public hearing ' Beating cancer – empowering patients and their caregivers '..- Survivorship, Quality of Life and Caregivers

BECA - Special Committee on Beating Cancer - Public hearing ' Beating cancer – empowering patients and their caregivers '..- Patient Rights, including the right to be forgotten, as well as patient-centred healthcare systems