European governments navigate an ever more competitive global landscape, stagnating productivity and competing demands on budgets. We have successfully faced and solved many challenges in the past, but this situation is different: the choices we make today will shape our health​ ​care systems and patient care, and these choices will dictate Europe’s economic performance and global relevance for decades to come.

For those of us in the life sciences, these aren’t just macroeconomic trends — they are the pulse of a system that determines how quickly a breakthrough reaches a patient. It is a high-stakes environment where policies on health​ ​care and innovation carry urgent human and economic consequences.