Health needs to remain a priority at the European level, the MEP who led on the European Health Data Space has told Euronews in an interview in which he flagged the need for common action to improve the early detection and prevention of diseases and development of new medicines. “Before the previous mandate, before the Europe Beating Cancer Plan and before COVID-19, healthcare was a marginal topic in the European institutions,” MEP Tomislav Sokol (Croatia/European Popular Party) said. He added that the pandemic and the shortages of medicines the EU has experienced in the last few years have sh…