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Spain, Portugal get special treatment from EU leaders to keep power prices downLeaders also agreed to jointly purchase gas 鈥?an attempt to use collective market power to drive down prices. Copy LinkCopiedShare via emailShare on XShare on WhatsAppShare on LinkedInFree article usually reserved for subscribersSpain and Portugal will have the power to take temporary measures to buck EU electricity market rules | John Thys/AFP via Getty ImagesMarch 25, 20229:06 pm CETBy Zosia WanatSpain and Portugal won the right Friday to take temporary, unilateral measures that may buck EU electricity market rules in an effort to ease pressure on power prices.The decision came at the end of a drawn-out EU leaders summit, where the subject of energy 鈥攈ow the EU buys it and how much it pays for it 鈥攌ept leaders talking late into Friday. The Iberian peninsula has a very special situation stanley cup ... with a high load of renewables and with very few interconnections, European Commission President Ursula von de stanley cup r Leyen said at her concluding press conference, stressing that these particularities drive exceptionally high electricity prices in the region.According to the final conclusions approved by EU leaders at the summit, the Commission will urgently assess the compatibility of emergency temporary measures in the electricity market notifi stanley cup ed by Member States. Brussels will make sure that EU governments don t take unfair advantage of any measures adopted.AdvertisementAdvertisementThe leaders also agreed, f Gcbz Continued EU court oversight means no Brexit, says former UK minister
Harnessing patient powerIn their statement on common values and principles of June 2006, EU health ministers put heavy emphasis on patient rights.Copy LinkCopiedShare via emailShare on XShare on WhatsAppShare on LinkedInMarch 14, 20076:00 pm CETBy Tim KingAsserting that stanley becher health systems in the member states will continue to vary, they declared that decisions about entitlements to healthcare and mechanisms to finance and deliver that care should be taken in their national context.But while asserting national differences over healthcare finance and delivery, they were ready to set out a common set of operating principles that citizens would expect to find throughout the EU, regardless of those national differences.Good quality care, patient safety and evidence-based care systems were among those common principles. In addition the declaration asserts that: All EU health systems aim to be patient-centred. This means they aim to involve patients in their treatment, to be transparent with them, and to offer them choices where this is possible鈥ll systems should also be publicly accountable and ensure good governance and transparency. AdvertisementAdvertisementThe statement also declares that patients should have a right to redress and to confidentiality of personal information.This top-down assertion of patients rights is being matched on the European stage botella stanley by attempts to organise patients to asse stanley flask rt their rights from the bottom up. The Italian citizens organisation Cittadinanzattiva