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Recording of the 76th episode of Europe Calling, the online discussion series by Sven Giegold MEP, Spokesperson of the German Greens in the European Parliament.

On 10 February 2021 in cooperation with the Heinrich Böll Foundation on the topic: “Deadly Patents?” – How to scale up the production of Covid-19 vaccines globally”

Our guests were:

Tahir Amin, British lawyer, co-founder and co-director of the non-governmental organisation Initiative for Medicines, Access and Knowledge (I-MAK). With I-MAK, Tahir Amin advocates for equitable access to medicines worldwide and has long criticised the abuse of patents to make this access more difficult. He has worked as a consultant for the European Patent Office, the United Nations Environment Programme and the World Health Organisation, among others.

Barbara Unmüßig, President of the Heinrich Böll Foundation and responsible on the Board for Latin America, Africa, Asia, the Middle East & North Africa. She is a well-known expert on global gender equality and resource policy.

Julia Reda, an expert on copyright and freedom of communication at the Gesellschaft für Freiheitsrechte and a Fellow of the Shuttleworth Foundation. Until 2019, Julia was a member of the European Parliament and the Greens/EFA Group.

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