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2024
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World Mental Health Day - need for a comprehensive EU strategy on mental health (debate)
Mr President, ladies and gentlemen, Commissioner, today we are celebrating World Mental Health Day, but we must remember that mental health requires daily action that must be courageous and concrete. Mental health cannot be treated as a secondary issue. Today, 84 million people in Europe live with mental disorders and the costs to society exceed EUR 600 billion per year, or 4% of European GDP. It …