Abstract
2017: a challenging year for public health in Europe
Highlights
Among the most popular Twitter messages last year was from J K Rowling: “If we all hit ctrl-alt-del simultaneously and pray, perhaps we can force 2016 to reboot”.1 This captured perfectly the mood of those attending the European Public Health conference in Vienna in November, 2016, when Donald Trump won the US Presidential election
There was sense of déjà vu, because they had been in Oslo in May, 2016, at the 6th European Conference on Migrant and Ethnic Minority Health when they heard that a narrow majority of the British population had rejected the European ideals of tolerance and solidarity, listening instead to politicians peddling hatred and outright lies
For historical reasons, the extreme right wing Alternative für Deutschland has struggled to achieve substantial support in Germany, it was quick to exploit the attack on a Berlin Christmas market in December, 2016, holding Angela Merkel responsible for the deaths.[2]
Summary
Comment 2017: a challenging year for public health in Europe Among the most popular Twitter messages last year was from J K Rowling: “If we all hit ctrl-alt-del simultaneously and pray, perhaps we can force 2016 to reboot”.1 This captured perfectly the mood of those attending the European Public Health conference in Vienna in November, 2016, when Donald Trump won the US Presidential election.
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