Written Declaration launched on the prioritisation of a European Dementia Strategy
Monday 11 April 2016
Eleven Members of the European Parliament (MEPs) have submitted a Written Declaration on the prioritisation of a European Dementia Strategy. The MEPs call upon the Council and the Commission to make combating Alzheimer’s and other types of dementia a top priority of the European Union, and to put further emphasis on cooperation among Member States in the areas of research, care and prevention.
Alzheimer Europe gratefully acknowledges this initiative launched by the following MEPs:
Deirdre Clune (Ireland), Roberta Metsola (Malta), Alberto Cirio (Italy), José Inácio Faria (Portugal), Neena Gill (UK), Ivan Štefanec (Slovakia), Tomáš Zdechovský (Czech Republic), Brian Hayes (Ireland), Simona Bonafè (Italy), Mairead McGuinness (Ireland), Giovanni La Via (Italy).
MEPs can sign it in Strasbourg at office LOW T02024 (office of written questions) or in Brussels in PHS 07C 085/87, or can print the PDF form in the Downloads section below; sign, scan and send it to this email: WritDeclSign@europarl.europa.eu
A Written Declaration is a text of a maximum of 200 words relating exclusively to a matter falling within the competence of the European Union (EU).
A Written Declaration can be submitted with a minimum of 10 MEPs’ signatures, from at least three political groups. They then have three months to present it to their colleagues for signature. For the declaration to get to the next stage and be forwarded to the EU institutions named in the text, it must attract more than half of all MEPs’ signatures (376/751). If it has not been signed by at least half of the MEPs it will lapse.
Written Declaration 0027/2016 is open for signatures until 11 July 2016.
You can read the full Declaration here: http://goo.gl/mpPnft
