Brexit: EMA Could Lose Up To Half Its Staff If It Has To Move

02 Dec 2016

• By Maureen Kenny

The European Medicines Agency is working to ensure it can cope with the many challenges it will face as a result of the UK leaving the EU. Those challenges could include the agency losing 50% of its staff, according to the EMA’s deputy head Noel Wathion.

The European Medicines Agency could lose up to half its nearly 900-strong staff if the agency moves from London following the departure of the UK from the EU. Nonetheless, the agency is determined to avoid disruption to its operations and to continue to meet its public health obligations, both in the run-up to Brexit and following it.

“What we cannot afford – no matter what happens – is a disruption of our operations or a delay in...