Implications of future EU policy on the provision of medicines and on actors in the European pharmaceutical sector

The main objective of this thesis is to examine the impact of the EU on the various players in the European pharmaceutical market. This is done in three steps: (1) a review of the roles, historical context and trends of the actors in the European pharmaceutical market, including the European Union and Member States; (2) the development of future scenarios for EU pharmaceutical policy; and (3) an analysis of the impact of these scenarios on the various actors in the EU pharmaceutical sector.