Wer zahlt am meisten Steuern in der Schweiz? Normalerweise: Roche, Novartis oder Nestlé. Neu zahlt ein US-Pharmakonzern mehr als alle anderen. Deutlich mehr. Die Recherche von @tikollbrunner.bsky.social und mir mit Unterstützung des @icij.org heute auf @republik.ch www.republik.ch/2026/04/17/g...
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Switzerland🇨🇭, MSDs💊 favourite (tax💸) holiday destination 🏝️ @icij.org @phalbrecht.bsky.social @republik.ch #CancerCalculus
Public Citizen’s Peter Maybarduk told ICIJ that pharma created a system of rules to protect drugmakers and ensure wealthy governments protect them “There is a whole architecture underpinning Keytruda and every patented drug where the US government and Europe go to bat for the industry and its rules”
In this context @publiceye.ch also shared with @icij.org an exclusive estimate of MSD's R&D costs for #pembrolizumab, based on independent verifiable data. This represents just a tiny fraction of what MSD pretends having invested - $1.9bn vs >$30bn. Check it out here www.publiceye.ch/en/topics/ph...
Thank you @tahiramin.bsky.social @imakglobal.bsky.social for supporting @fr.publiceye.ch in our patent analysis of cancer drug #Keytruda, in conjunction with @icij.org, unveiling MSD's gaming of the patent systems to maintain overinflated prices & delay competition www.publiceye.ch/en/topics/ph...
#CancerCalculus: An ICIJ-led collaboration with 47 media partners in 37 countries reveals how Merck & Co. keeps the price of its lifesaving cancer drug Keytruda sky-high, locking out patients and squeezing health care systems worldwide. www.icij.org/investigatio...
Prix record, brevets en cascade et coûts de recherche contestés: une enquête de l’ONG Public Eye et du Consortium international des journalistes d’investigation révèle comment l’anticancéreux phare de MSD s’est imposé comme...
Our first—and hopefully not our last—collaboration with our colleagues at the @icij.org ✊🏼 @republik.ch #CancerCalculus
Zusammen mit @icij.org haben @phalbrecht.bsky.social und ich für die @republik.ch recherchiert, warum die Krebstherapie Keytruda die Welt – und die Schweiz – so viel kostet wie kein anderes Medikament. Und wieso sich daran nichts ändert. #CancerCalculus
www.republik.ch/2026/04/13/d...
💊 En Suisse, le médicament anticancéreux #Keytruda a permis au géant pharmaceutique MSD de réaliser un chiffre d'affaires de 31,7 milliards de dollars en 2025. Notre enquête conjointe avec @icij.org montre comment MSD fait du « patent evergreening »➡️ www.publiceye.ch/fr/keytruda
Teal background, highlighted quote: "Pro-corporate, pro-monopoly models reinforced by the current trade order and exploited by the powerful are failing the world. Health must be a guarantee, not a bargaining chip." Blue background with caption: Over 100 organizations around the world detail principles for trade that ensure access to medicines."
The Trump administration is using U.S. trade power and extreme tariffs to bully other countries into binding agreements that undermine affordable and readily available access to medicines.
Experts from around the world offer an alternate vision:
Both #Roche and #Novartis reported a net income of around US$ 14 billion in 2025 - so absolutely no need to cry wolf and threaten access to new drugs in 🇪🇺 🇨🇭.
Especially since Trump's moves are so far very much harmless for #BigPharma, as expressed in my recent blog www.publiceye.ch/fr/regard/de...
"Pharmaceutical companies are raising prices elsewhere instead of bringing them down in the US, due to rules introduced by President Donald Trump that force drugmakers to reduce their prices in the US to the lowest level paid in other developed countries." www.bloomberg.com/news/article...
Trump says he lowered drug prices.
We’ll believe it when we see it.
So we sued for access to the secret deals.
Hier noch eine Einordnung des erwähnten Deals mit #Roche & Co in den USA www.publiceye.ch/de/standpunk...
"Die Basler drohen der 🇨🇭 mit Jobabbau und dem Zurückhalten ihres neuen «revolutionären» Brustkrebsmedikaments." Eine Frechheit von #Roche als sie fast 14 Milliarden Franken Reingewinn im 2025 machten.
Erpressen & jammern, das können sie weiterhin gut🤔 www.tagesanzeiger.ch/roche-droht-...
Alors que le lobby pharma ne cesse de se lamenter sur les vélléités 🇺🇸 (inoffensives pour l'instant) de baisser le prix des médicaments, le géant bâlois #Roche annonce des bénéfices nets de CHF 13,8 milliards en 2025 ! Ça va, il y a encore de la marge (bénéficiaire) 🤔 www.publiceye.ch/fr/regard/de...
Plainte en diffamation de Kolmar: les autrices et l’auteur d’un rapport de Public Eye et TRIAL ont été acquitté·e·s des charges de « diffamation voire calomnie ». La Cour a balayé l’appel et confirmé la solidité de notre enquête. Un signal fort pour la liberté d’informer ! 👉 peye.link/plainte-kolmar
Legal tools that lower medicines prices have expanded access to medicines for over two decades, new ML&P research in @bmj.com reveals. Read about study, the most comprehensive review to-date of use of @wto.org IP rules, here: medicineslawandpolicy.org/2026/01/lega...
Conclu peu avant Noël, le « deal » américain de #Roche et #Novartis prévoit des rabais importants, mais sur une quantité réduite de médicaments et pour un nombre limité de patient·e·s. Qui y gagne ? Les actionnaires.
@dbdurisch.bsky.social dans #RegardDePublicEye 👉 www.publiceye.ch/fr/regard/de...
Der US-Deal von #Roche & #Novartis: hohe Rabatte – aber nur auf fiktive Listenpreise. Reale Medikamentenkosten bleiben hoch, Big Pharma kassiert Milliarden-Privilegien.
Winner: Aktionäre. Loser: Gesundheitssysteme.
@dbdurisch.bsky.social in #PublicEyeStandpunkte 👉 www.publiceye.ch/de/standpunk...
@publiceye.ch extensively reported about Roche's patent evergreening strategy on its breast cancer treatments trastuzumab & follow-on products. This led to complaints by competition authorities a.o. in South Africa. When will 🇨🇭start to act? www.publiceye.ch/en/topics/ph...
Belgian Regulator Presses Roche Further Over Biosimilar Abuse Allegations insights.citeline.com/pink-sheet/l...
The $150bn question: has the 🇮🇳 gov considered introducing drug #dataexclusivity on its own, after resisting it for decades in trade talks? Or has 🇨🇭 @SECO_StateSec helped by suggesting it could attract additional foreign investment, as reported by 🇮🇳 press? www.thehindubusinessline.com/news/keep-da...
50 years after the baby formula scandal, @publiceye.ch shows that, regarding sugar, a similar malpractice continues.
In an open letter, 19 civil society organisations in 13 countries are calling on Nestlé to put an end to inacceptable double standard.
www.publiceye.ch/en/topics/cr...
Nestlé accused of ’risking health of babies for profit’ over added sugar in cereals sold in African countries
Eineinhalb Jahre nach unseren ersten Enthüllungen zeigt eine neue Untersuchung zu Cerelac-Babynahrung, dass #Nestlé auf dem afrikanischen Kontinent Babys weiterhin mit Zucker vollstopft.🍼 Eine Recherche von @laurentgaberell.bsky.social, hier zu lesen 👉 www.publiceye.ch/de/themen/kr...