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Index reveals EU's IT innovation deficit
Date: 20 December 2006
A new Index measures the strength of IP protection for the IT industry in 10 key markets. Dr Meir Perez Pugatch, author of the Index, explains how the Index was compiled, and discusses some of the findings .
 The Press-Gazette and The Galen Institute
European-Style Health Care? Time for a Reality Check
Date: 17 December 2006
To inject a dose of reality into America’s domestic debate, five European health policy experts explained the nuts and bolts of how European health care systems work at a briefing for congressional staffers in Washington, D.C., jointly sponsored by the Heritage Foundation and the Galen Institute. Homegrown critics of America’s health care system "tend to go misty-eyed when thinking about the merits of European health care systems," says Helen Disney, director of the Stockholm Network. The performance is always less than the promise, she warned.
UNT.se and Others
Falska läkemedel växande industri
Date: 07 December 2006
The launch of the Stockholm Network's recent publication, Coincidence or Crisis, has drawn a great deal of publicity in Sweden. The launch was reported in 29 national and regional newspapers. A sample of this coverage can be downloaded below (in Swedish).
The Financial Times
France Needs Unthinkable Free Market Revolution
Date: 10 November 2006
Unthinkable as it seems in France, it is time for left and right to heed lessons from successful experiences in Europe and elsewhere.
These come in three categories. First, radical change (the famous 100 days of opportunity, where reform may be implemented without painful resistance from interest groups), such as in Slovakia where the previous rightwing government appealed to the people directly to eliminate economic privileges. Second, reform by persuading people there is a lack of alternatives. This was done in places such as Estonia, Ireland and New Zealand (including introduction in nine European countries of a flat tax and, in some places, radical reduction of the civil service by negotiation). Third, market reforms on the sly, without official discourse: this entails a delicate strategy of buying out rent-seekers, such as unions and civil servants. Public Finance
The Price is Right
Date: 10 November 2006
Surveys of medical professionals across Europe report similar unease with lack of freedom in the public systems, including scant autonomy over the amount of time they can spend with patients, little freedom to prescribe according to medical need rather than on cost grounds, and inflexible working hours.
New grassroots organisations, such as the European Doctors Alliance and Nurses for Reform, are now springing up to try to address these issues and build support for change. Clearly something is going on here, which is bigger than pay alone. While no one wants to see public money wasted, high salaries for top public servants are not an outrage per se. What is a scandal is stifling the knowledge and expertise of senior public servants with too many top-down rules and targets so that they are unable to deliver the top-quality services these high-flying salaries now warrant — and which the public who hear about them will rightly expect. |
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