UEMO President Tiago Villanueva attended the 50th anniversary celebrations and General Assembly of the European Junior Doctors (EJD) on April 16 and 17 in Bad Nauheim, Germany, where EJD was founded. The meeting accommodated a slightly modified format to accommodate the birthday celebrations, which included several panel debates with several external guests and the current […]

UEMO President Tiago Villanueva attended in the CEOM Plenary meeting on 27 March, in Ljubljana, where he gave an update of UEMO’s activities, in particular the latest developments to pursue the recognition of the specialty of general practice/family medicine in Europe (the notification of Spain to the European Commission requesting inclusion of general practice/family medicine […]

On March 20 and 21, UEMO Vice-President Hermenegildo Marcos participated in the CPME General Assembly in Dublin. Attendees discussed “The Digital Determinants of Poor Health,” focusing on smartphone applications, understanding what pornography is, and gambling addiction. Other topics of discussion included optimization of the health workforce, the health effects of gambling, the digital omnibus package, […]

On March 6, UEMO President Tiago Villanueva delivered a keynote presentation at the Conference of the Croatian Society of Teachers in Family Medicine (DNOOM) in Zagreb on “Enhancing the recognition and value of Family Medicine in European healthcare systems” The session focused on the current challenges affecting Family Medicine across Europe and the opportunities to […]

On February 27, UEMO President Tiago Villanueva and UEMO Secretary General Catarina Matias hosted representatives in the UEMO office in Brussels from WONCA Europe, EURACT, UEMS (Nada Cikes), European Commission (Petronille Bogaert), and European Parliament (MEP Tilly Metz) at the 3rd meeting of the European Alliance for Primary-Care Workforce Development, an informal group of European […]

UEMO, as a member of the Coalition for Vaccination, supports the Coalition’s 10 February 2026 appeal urging EU countries to strengthen vaccination programmes, tackle misinformation, and remove access barriers. Vaccination against influenza, SARS-CoV-2, RSV, pneumococcal disease, herpes zoster, and HPV remains a safe, effective way to protect patients and communities. Read the Full Coalition Statement […]

On 13 December, in Athens, UEMO President Tiago Villanueva attended the centenary celebrations of the Pan-Hellenic Medical Association (PHMA), together with representatives of other European medical organisations (EJD, CEOM, CPME, UEMS and WMA), in the presence of the Greek Minister of Health. In his address, he praised the achievements of the PHMA and expressed the […]

UEMO is proud to be part of the EMA’s new “It Takes a Team” campaign, launched on the 4th of November to raise awareness about the shared responsibility of tackling medicine shortages across Europe. Medicine shortages affect patients, clinicians, and healthcare systems alike. As frontline doctors, GPs are often the first to support patients when […]

Calin Bumbulut, the immediate past President of UEMO and a member of the Romanian delegation to UEMO, represented UEMO at the CPME meeting in Athens on October 24-25. He stated that recognition of the specialty as a European specialty remained our primary objective. The UEMO strategy, which we call the “dual path”, does not envisage […]