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To tackle shortages, some EU Member States (France, Germany, Czech Republic, Austria, Greece, Denmark and Poland) are increasingly instructing medicine manufacturers to stockpile, undermining EU solidarity and counter-intuitively exacerbating the risk of shortages. Stockpiling mandates prevent manufacturers from reallocating medicines to another EU country to solve a shortage.