Drug wars

EUROPEAN pharmaceutical
companies,
specially those based in
Germany and
are bell bent on
blocking the
of the low priced
Spanish and
wipme drugs in the
European Union
When Spain and Germany
sed the Eu in 1985,
their drugs were
Red bemuse neither
country offered
at protection for
pharmaceuticals.
IM both passed
tougher patent
L bar the European
Commission
&d so keep the export
bans in place
a &ad three years.
That deadline
October 7. Now,
the French
Gersoom governments,
goaded by
jadusts, are lobbying
with the
glAmim to extend the
ban. Or else
jWgcooopanies will
suffer serious
Wd losses, they plead.

State controlled prices and the steep
alidadw of the peseta
have kept
p6m below those of
the rest of
The commission,
however, is
loop lake a decision
right now and
WW for hurther
information.