Helena Legido-Quigley
Martin McKee
Ellen Nolte
Irene A Glinos

2008

A case for action

The European Union (EU) is built on the concept of four freedoms: free movement of goods, services, people and capital. To make these freedoms realizable the EU has, over many years, enacted laws to ensure, first, that goods and services provided across borders are of an appropriate quality (exemplified by the European Commission (EC) safety mark on many goods) and, second, that freedom for people to move is not constrained by their health (by ensuring that they can obtain health care when outside their home country).