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A number of Ukraine’s neighbouring countries have stepped up their focus on issues of historical memory, national minorities and bilateral relations against the backdrop of the war with Russia.
The labour shortage in Ukraine is directly linked to domestic economic and demographic trends.
Once again, I suggest we examine various aspects of our social life; today, I’d like to look at demographics through the lens of macroeconomics, focusing on the reasons behind the largest transfer of young intellectual capital in European history.
“They won’t admit you to hospital unless you’re in intensive care!” — panic-stricken messages like this have recently flooded Ukrainian social media. And although this is somewhat exaggerated, there’s no smoke without fire. The Ministry of Health has indeed put forward a draft Standard for public consultation that could radically change the rules governing how Ukrainians are admitted to hospital beds. Why is the medical community sounding the alarm, what does the National Health Service’s financial monitoring have to do with it, and what are the implications for patients? Let’s take a closer look.
The Ukrainian bureaucratic machine has mastered the art of pretence to perfection. Instead of demolishing dilapidated buildings right down to their foundations, we simply change the signs, paint the façade in the EU’s corporate colours and cut the ribbon. The militia became the police, the tax police transformed into the State Fiscal Service, and later, part of it evolved into the Economic Security Bureau.
