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On 27 August 2020, the Dutch Ministry of Economic Affairs responded in a letter to the Parliament to the SOMO report ‘Overpriced: drugs developed with Dutch Public Funding‘. On our Dutch website you find a…
New research reveals large-scale tax avoidance by coronavirus test manufacturer Qiagen
New research by the Centre for Research on Multinational Corporations (SOMO) shows that the German coronavirus test producer Qiagen has been able to dodge millions of euros in tax since 2010 thanks to tax avoidance…
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Webinar on public investment in medicines in Europe
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Overpriced drugs: SOMO and Wemos publication discussed in Dutch parliament
Overpriced drugs developed with tax money
Research shows major Dutch public investment in drug development Overpriced, a report published today jointly by SOMO and Wemos examines the extent of Dutch public funding of drug development, through donations, loans and/or investments. This…
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Position on supplementary protection certificates for medicinal products
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Common call to improve access to medicine
In the run-up to the general debate on Medicines policy on Thursday June 21st 2018, eight organizations in the Netherlands jointly sent a letter to the Dutch Parliament to inform them abouth their position concerning…
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