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The changing EU economic and political context implies adapting to this changing environment, including our lobby strategies to pro-actively set the nursing agenda. The EU institutions, its political machinery, has become a complex political labyrinth in which public consultations are not enough to build trust with its citizens. Putting civil society into the cloud to meet and produce statement is the new window dressing which does not facilitate the design of a social Europe. This book is building on concrete achievements of the nursing community, its leaders to move the European political agenda, to advance nursing in such a way that it delivers concrete benefits for EU citizens. The nurses' European project, be it political, professional, scientific, is a movement built since 1967, when the Commission started drafting the free movement Directive. EU legislation protected and stimulated the development of nursing as a profession. However, as lobby strategies are drying up, civil society being excluded from policy design, we need to reflect on how to influence better EU politics and policies. The world changed in 2017 and more changes are to come, for the better, the worse!
About the author
As Registered Nurse (1984), Paul has a Master in Nursing Science(1989-VUB) and Statistics (1996-KUB) and a PhD from Kings College London (2014), being the first EFN Secretary General since 2002, lobbying the EU Commission, Parliament and Council on behalf of 3 million nurses in the EU. Paul focusses on developing EFN and ENRF in synergy.
