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Rise in Polish health spending could be more ambitious

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POLAND

This has resulted in the limited availability of a range of health services and in structural problems, including insufficient human resources and public hospital debts. However…

COVID-19 will result in limited EU health integration

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EU

COVID-19 is by far the EU's worst health crisis and it has spurred fresh proposals for integration. The European Commission has announced plans to strengthen the management of…

Anti-virus policies may hurt democracy in eastern EU

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EU

Eastern EU’s handling of COVID-19 pandemic.

Growth may accelerate under new Slovak government

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SLOVAKIA

The governing coalition has a comfortable parliamentary majority, but faces gathering concerns over Prime Minister Robert Fico's health, teachers' protests over wages and…

Cost-of-living crisis will not hurt Hungary’s rulers

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HUNGARY

The largest annual rise was for food, by 30.9% (3.3% month-on-month). Many Hungarians are expecting their living standards to decline, with costs rising also for some public…

Draft budget will increase Greek taxpayers' burden

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GREECE

Clearing state arrears to the private sector depends on the quartet of international creditors' timely disbursement of financial assistance tranches. The finance ministry is in…

External factors will slow Greek GDP growth next year

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GREECE

The economy is on track to grow by 5.3% year-on-year in 2022, outperforming market expectations for the second year in a row. In a sign of its recovery, Greece left the EU's…

Hungary’s pandemic measures will entrench ruling party

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HUNGARY

While the government's communications focus on how to stop the pandemic and make the economy more resilient, some of its recent spending decisions seem unrelated to tackling…

EU green ambitions are strongly reflected in budget

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EU

Overall, some 30% of the budget will involve climate-related spending. One of the key reforms concerns the EU’s own resources mechanism to finance spending, with plans to…

Romanian government’s health spending will fall short

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ROMANIA

The November 14 fire happened at a very old provincial hospital in Piatra Neamt in north-eastern Romania, but the January 29 tragedy was at one of Romania’s most modern and…