What Trump means for European pharma — the long view

Speculation is rife about what Donald Trump’s US presidential election win means for pharma and health care in the USA, but what of its potential impact on the industry in Europe? Novasecta’s Salma Ajraoui analyzes the issue.

Pharmaceutical companies are experiencing again a growing uncertainty after the US election on November 8. As US voters and the rest of the world start to come to terms with Donald Trump as the President-elect for the USA, we take a look at the implications for European pharmaceutical companies that are still absorbing the uncertainty caused by the UK’s Brexit vote in June.

As with Brexit, it is still very early days to anticipate the amount of disruption to business as usual and/or predict policy changes. After all, the President-elect was described during the campaign as an “erratic individual” by Marco Rubio, Republican US Senator from Florida.