EMA’s Post-Brexit Home ‘Could Be Decided This Year’

The leader of Denmark’s bid to host the European Medicines Agency after the UK leaves the EU says that a rapid decision-making process on the agency’s new location is needed in order to avoid entanglements with the wider Brexit negotiations, and that a decision could be taken sometime in the second half of this year.

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The EMA will be relocated from London's Canary Wharf to another EU country

A decision on where to relocate the European Medicines Agency following the UK’s decision to leave the EU could be taken sometime during the summer or the second half of this year, according to former Novo Nordisk CEO Lars Rebien Sørensen, who is leading Denmark’s bid to bring the agency to the country’s capital, Copenhagen.

Sørensen, who was asked by prime minister Lars Løkke Rasmussen to be the ambassador for Denmark’s candidacy, says that it...

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