Fac­ing an ex­o­dus, EMA starts to line up temp re­place­ments as top staffers jump ship

LON­DON — De­pend­ing on whether the EMA ends up mov­ing to Am­s­ter­dam or, well, some­place like Za­greb, the Eu­ro­pean drugs agency ex­pects to lose any­where from one fifth to vir­tu­al­ly all of its staff when it leaves Ca­nary Wharf in Lon­don.

In or­der to fill the gap, how­ev­er large, it’s put out con­tracts for tem­po­rary work­ers with one of the largest “ten­der of­fers” of its kind for the EMA, re­ports the Fi­nan­cial Times.

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