The temporary home of the
European Medicines Agency (EMA) in Amsterdam is OK and just
needs to be refurbished, the head of a European Parliament
delegation, Giovanni La Via, said Thursday.
"Palazzo Spark is a good building., the real issue is the
necessary timeframe for the refurbishments...but there are no
great needs," said La Via.
"Inside there is a well-equipped facility and all the
fundamental parts of the network installations are there.
"They just have to put in the beams and obviously bring the
supplies for the desks but that, having nine months ahead to
make everything complete, is viable".
Milan city council said its appeal against Amsterdam getting
the EMA was well-founded.
"It is well-founded and receivable, as the EU court itself
recently recognised," the council lawyer who filed the appeal
told ANSA, responding to rumours that the EU Council had judged
the appeal not to be valid.
The EU Council, he said, "has not rejected anything because
it does not have the power to do so, just as it does not
have any power to declare it unreceivable".
Milan's bid to get the EMA back from Amsterdam is "more open
than ever", Milan Mayor Giuseppe Sala said after the European
Council reportedly judged the bid "irreceivable".
"I had been expecting this opinion from the European
Council," he said, "but they can't decide whether an appeal is
receivable or not".
He said "the game is more open than ever, and I will raise
the stakes today."
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