The European Left supports the European Citizens' campaign "No profit on pandemic"The Covid-19 outbreak is increasingly devastating for European peoples and has heavy social, economic and democratic impacts.

If vaccine brings hope for improvement of the situation, it is imperative that: Vaccine must be accessible for all and for free-Big Pharma must not make money off public health systems of states, which have already been weakened by European austerity policies;therefore vaccine must be provided to States at cost. These demands are the most helpful to struggle against scepticism and consparicy theories supported by far-right. For these reasons, the European Left: Actively supports the European Citizens' campaign "No profit on pandemic" and calls for signing the European petition on the Website https://noprofitonpandemic.eu. It will take part in the European mobilizations' days to be decided by the European citizens' committee piloting the campaign - Encourages the Parties members, observers and associated with the European Left to take part in the national committees, depending on the different national contexts. with their financial implications. If the vaccine holds the hope of a possible improvement of the situation, it is imperative that: - it is accessible free of charge to all - the pharmaceutical industry does not make a profit on the public health systems of States, already weakened by European austerity policies, and therefore that vaccines be supplied at cost to the states- patent rights are lifted to make the vaccine a common global good- the vaccine is not a new tool. These demands are the main means of combating skepticism and even conspiracy relayed by far-right networks. For all these reasons, the Party of the European Left: - actively supports the European initiative campaign "No profit on the pandemic" and calls for the signing and signing of the European petition on the https://noprofitonpandemic.eu website. It will participate in the European mobilization days that will be decided by the European citizen collective of animation of the campaign - Encourages the member parties, observers and associates to participate in the campaign within the various national campaign collectives, depending on the different national situations.

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