The 5^thGago Conference on European Science Policy will be held on October 6, 2022, in Heidelberg. Since its first edition, which was held in Porto, Portugal on 14^th February 2018, the European Cancer Patient Coalition (ECPC) has been an active part of this forum to include patients in Policy and Research and to empower them in becoming co-creators of their own health.

The conference is an international platform to debate on emerging issues of research and innovation policy in Europe.

Ahead of Sunday’s elections in Brazil, and one month after her meeting with presidential candidate and former President Lula da Silva, today the president of the Socialists and Democrats in the European Parliament, Iratxe García Pérez, announced the joint signing of a Memorandum of Cooperation between the S&D Group, the Party of the European Socialists (PES) and Brazil’s Workers’ Party (PT).

S&Ds are disappointed with the revision of the European law on the protection of workers from asbestos proposed today by the European Commission. No time should be wasted and no effort spared to limit workers’ exposure to this highly dangerous substance - the main cause of work-related cancers in Europe*. This is clearly a missed opportunity to prove the commitment to the vision of no work-related deaths.

“We need European rules to regulate the use of spyware technologies to avoid innocent citizens becoming victims of intrusive and illegal surveillance, as we have seen in Poland”, say S&D members Katarina Barley and Lukasz Kohut. Both MEPs travelled to Warsaw with the European Parliament’s spyware inquiry committee, PEGA*, for a fact-finding mission, and heard from experts, judges, journalists, local politicians, and persons targeted by Pegasus spyware.