Trade group issues message at key time for Belgian pharma

Political parties in Belgium agreed Friday to form a new government, ending almost eight months of negotiations.

This followed the election victory of Flemish nationalist party N-VA, the leader of which, Bart De Wever, is set to become prime minister, heading a five-party coalition.

From a pharma perspective, this change is happening at an already key moment for the industry, as the European Commission has just published the ‘competitiveness compass’, which aims to respond to the decline in European competitiveness in a geopolitically tense environment.