Stories at the heart of Europe’s failing healthcare systems
June 2024
Confidential agreements and medicines out of reach for millions. This investigation goes inside Europe’s secret drug pricing system, revealing a world of opaque deals and unequal access.
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July 2021
Across Europe, elderly people and their relatives are sharing a terrible experience: understaffed with overworked caregivers, the situation in care homes can become a threat to the lives of residents. The Covid-19 pandemic escalated the already dire circumstances for many. But while there is a shortage of care workers almost everywhere given the ever-growing need, international corporations and investors are making huge profits.
May 2020
The world urgently needs 20 billion doses of a vaccine that will protect global citizens against the coronavirus. States are throwing huge sums of public money at the race to beat Covid-19, but who will get there first? Will Big Pharma focus on private profit? Will vaccine nationalism prevail, or will the patent be shared to create a low-cost global supply?
January 2023
In light of the crisis sweeping Europe, our team has decided to use our position as a cross-border team to look at the political landscape and the different national strategies being followed. At a time when Europe should unite and follow best practices, we will examine the dangerous impact of national governments taking contradictory and individualist measures.
