Papadimoulis’ commitment to create a wider political front for patents in the EU Snapshot from the discussion “Vaccines without patents for all” 20 January 2021. At the initiative of the office of the former Minister of Health, Andreas Xanthos, a very interesting discussion was organized on the subject of vaccines, of patents, the EU’s position and that of the member states, the overall supplies of vaccines, and bilateral additional agreements. On the panel, apart from him, were the MEP Dimitris Papadimoulis, Professor George Papanikolaou, the policy manager of the European Public Health Alliance, Giannis Natsis, and Apostolos Veizis from Doctors without Borders. Some important interventions were made by Katerina Antoniou, former President of the EOF