For the EMA (European Medicines Agency), in addition to Milan, Amsterdam, Athens, Barcelona, Bonn, Bratislava, Brussels, Bucharest, Copenhagen, Dublin, Helsinki, Lille, Milan, Porto, Sofia, Stockholm, Malta, Vienna, are in the running. Warsaw and Zagreb.
For the EBA (European Banking Authority) Brussels, Dublin, Vienna and Warsaw (also candidates for the Medicines Agency), Frankfurt, Paris, Prague and Luxembourg.
The six criteria agreed by the 27 Member States last June are: providing guarantees that the agency will be operational when the United Kingdom leaves the EU, the accessibility of the new headquarters, the existence of schools for the personnel, access to the labor market and health care for personnel families, business continuity and geographical distribution.
All the strengths on which Milan has built its dossier and its spot for the candidacy, entrusted to a special commissioner, Enzo Moavero, appointed by the government, who to bring the EMA home has allocated 50 million euros and put a task force of 100 experts to work.
Taken from The Republic of 08/01/2017
