Milan Mayor Giuseppe Sala on
Tuesday appealed to the European Audit Court against the
European Medicines Agency (EMA) being assigned to Amsterdam over
Milan.
He said he was in possession of documents which allegedly
proved that Amsterdam had not met bid requirements in allegedly
not being ready to host the agency after it leaves London after
Brexit.
"Today the Dutch government was forced to make public the
acts it had filed away, and from this we understood that our
suspicions were founded".
Amsterdam says its temporary location for the EMA is
adequate.
Milan and the Italian government are appealing a November 20
tie-break lottery decision to assign the agency to the Dutch
city over the Lombardy capital.
Premier Paolo Gentiloni said Wednesday Italy would "verify"
whether the process that assigned the EMA to Amsterdam was
"transparent".
He said "the city (of Milan), the region (of Lombardy) and
the government are working and will continue to work to verify
that the process was done with correctness and transparency,
because if it was not it would be doing wrong not only to Milan
but also to Italy and Europe".
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