EUROPEAN ME ALLIANCE NEWS Summary Report Breakfast Colloquium European Parliament – Brussels March 7th 2017 The European ME Alliance recently organised a meeting in the European Parliament to discuss the situation with regard to ME in Europe. This event followed meetings for clinicians on the day before organised by EMEA-Belgium member [ME Association]. The intent with the meeting – labelled Breakfast in Brussels – was to make European MEPs aware of the lack of services for people with ME, the negligible amount of proper research being carried out into the disease across Europe, and the lack of funding given to biomedical research into the disease and the waste which is being given to flawed psychiatric theories which have caused harm to patients across the continent. With the help of MEP, Mrs. Helga Stevens and her staff the Belgian ME Association coordinated the event that consisted of a number of selected speakers addressing a gathering of MEPs. The speakers were Dr. Ian Gibson, Dr. Olli Polo, Dr. Nigel Speight, Dr. Louise Brinth and CRPD Expert Dr. László Lovászy – who shared their knowledge and expertise with the audience. The following are extemporaneous notes compiled by EMEA Belgium during the meeting. www.investinme.org Page 51 of 82
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