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European health commissioner Tonio Borg has called for policymakers and stakeholders to pursue an "integrated approach to tackling obesity" that cuts "across all EU policies".
The Maltese official was addressing a Parliament Magazine roundtable discussion co-organised with Covidien, where he highlighted that "over half of European adults are overweight or obese", adding that this has "almost become the norm".
As the event's keynote speaker on Wednesday, he stressed the problems related to obesity are "reversible", underlining that, "If we said 'nothing can be done' then the battle would be over before it began".
"The European commission has endeavoured to promote healthy living across multiple policy areas, but we do not have power to impose sanctions on member states. We can only apply soft law, by publishing statistics and reports - no one likes to be at the top of a table that is negative."
https://www.theparliamentmagazine.e...ckle-obesity-across-all-eu-policies-says-borg
Resistance is futile! 😉
The Maltese official was addressing a Parliament Magazine roundtable discussion co-organised with Covidien, where he highlighted that "over half of European adults are overweight or obese", adding that this has "almost become the norm".
As the event's keynote speaker on Wednesday, he stressed the problems related to obesity are "reversible", underlining that, "If we said 'nothing can be done' then the battle would be over before it began".
"The European commission has endeavoured to promote healthy living across multiple policy areas, but we do not have power to impose sanctions on member states. We can only apply soft law, by publishing statistics and reports - no one likes to be at the top of a table that is negative."
https://www.theparliamentmagazine.e...ckle-obesity-across-all-eu-policies-says-borg
Resistance is futile! 😉