PN MEPs to assist in Malta’s bid to host European Medicines Agency

The Nationalist Party today announced the opposition’s full support of Malta’s bid to host the European Medicines Agency. It said the impact on Malta, should the application be successful, would be positive.

This was expressed in a letter sent this morning by Opposition Leader Adrian Delia to Prime Minister Joseph Muscat.

David Casa also said Nationalist MEPs were ready to help the government on this matter.

Malta is one of 20 EU Member States which have launched bids to be the host country of the EMA, which will post-Brexit be relocating from its current home in Canary Wharf, London. It employs 900 staff members from all over Europe.

The government’s bid includes tax reprieves, plans to build a bespoke 30,000 square metre building at Smart City, free rent for 15 years and a grant for furniture and data services.

The EMA monitors, evaluates and determines the safety of medical and veterinary products before the are sold in the European Single Market.