The agencies are attractive not only because of their hundreds of staff but also because of the large numbers of visitors, who will need hotel rooms each year. Some 9,000 people visited the EBA in 2016, and the EMA had 36,000 visitors in 2015.
The EMA’s current 76,000-square-meter location among the skyscrapers of Canary Wharf in London places it close to international airports and within easy reach of upscale hotels, as well as enabling it to draw on the resources of Britain’s own drug regulator and the country’s extensive pool of researchers. The EBA is also located in Canary Wharf.
A European Council official said that business continuity was just “one among six unweighted criteria,” which would be assessed before a vote on the relocation of the agencies. [...]
France and Germany are bidding for both the EMA and EBA, although the draft EU document says that one country cannot host the two agencies. Italy has nominated Milan for the EMA and Spain has put Barcelona forward.
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