Description
Over the past years since the Covid-19 pandemic, the European Union has turned in to an increasingly relevant space for the shaping of health policy. Refoms under the banner of a stronger European Health Union however, have to a great extent focused on protection and preparedness against health threats such as pandemics. As the EU is moving towards a new Commission mandate, practices within the body of civil servants and other overlapping networks are pushing for different kind of reforms, integrating more holistic and green perspectives on health and security.
Drawing on critical security studies and the notion of the so called anthropocene, this paper traces practices reatriculating different concpetions of what it means to be healthy and safe in times of tumulous change and environmental crises.´The material draws on interviews and key documents from the EU institutions.
