Economy

Why Europe is running out of medicines, again 

Tuesday 28 March 2023 | Kostas Zafeiropoulos
Nikos Morfonios
Janine Louloudi
Corina Petridi
| MIIR

In the past 20 years drug shortages have surged in Europe. Governments have recently used the war in Ukraine and the energy crisis to cover up the real – far more structural – reasons behind them.

Parallel exports and the problem with Greek drug shortage statistics 

Tuesday 28 March 2023 | Kostas Zafeiropoulos
Nikos Morfonios
Janine Louloudi
Corina Petridi
| MIIR

In Greece, medicine shortages are severely under-reported by the responsible government body. Meanwhile, the illegal export of medicines is an important part of the problem.

Does work still have meaning? 

Monday 27 March 2023 | Catherine André
| Alternatives Economiques

The climate and Covid crises have led more and more workers - especially younger ones - to question the meaning of their work, resulting in "quiet quitting" and loss of motivation.

Is mass unemployment coming to an end? 

Monday 27 March 2023 | Laurent Jeanneau
| Alternatives Economiques

The unemployment rate is low in many European countries, thanks, however, to a decrease in productivity that could become a problem in the near future.

Platform workers are becoming more and more commonplace 

Monday 27 March 2023 | Catherine Abou El Khair
| Alternatives Economiques

Delivery, transport, but also business services: more and more workers are opting for self-employed status by using online platforms to obtain assignments. This is a common phenomenon throughout the European Union.

Telework, a new privilege? 

Monday 27 March 2023 | Sabine Germain
| Alternatives Economiques

The Covid crisis has accelerated the rise of telework in all European countries, in all sectors of activity and all company sizes. This has benefited employees and companies, whose satisfaction and productivity levels have increased. But it also risks creating a digital divide between "teleworkable" jobs and those that are not.

The great disappearance of job applicants 

Monday 27 March 2023 | Laurent Jeanneau
| Alternatives Economiques

Employers are desperate to hire. All over Europe, the small ads that flourish in restaurant windows are turning yellow for lack of interested candidates - to the great annoyance of bosses. But the complaints go far beyond the hotel and restaurant sector.

Should the EU be blamed for the downfall of the WTO? 

Tuesday 21 March 2023 | Kata Moravecz
| EUrologus

The answer is no, but why has the EU moved towards one-to-one trade agreements instead of relying on the WTO in recent years? The reasons lie in the immobility of the latter and the efficiency of the former.

Is there a glut of credit in Europe?

Monday 30 December 2019 | Christian Chavagneux
| Alternatives Economiques

The European Central Bank is flooding the continent with liquidity. Will this lead to a future financial crisis?

Hungary spent 1 billion euros mostly from EU funds on empty motorways 

Thursday 16 March 2023 | Péter Bucsky
| G7

Between 2010 and 2020, the Hungarian government spent almost 1 billion euros, mainly coming from the EU, to build motorways where traffic is now less than 10 per cent of capacity. Why did they do it?