Thinking global, living local: Voices in a globalized world

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  • Sustainable Lifestyles: “Are Nordic Countries Heavens?”

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    This post was produced for the Global Economic Symposium 2013. Read more at http://blog.global-economic-symposium.org/. That was a rhetorical question posed by the illustrious Mr. Marti Ahtisari in the opening plenary session at GES 2013 in regards to a remark about Newsweek ranking Nordic countries the “best countries in the world.” […]

  • Senior Sport School - A Swedish Initiative that Should be Exported Everywhere in Europe. Photo by Skaneidrotten on Flickr, CC BY-SA 2.0

    How we eat, drink and move

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    Healthcare reform has triggered many controversies in Romania ranging from street protests in January 2012 over a new healthcare bill to massive online activism just a year later against government plans to prevent citizens from using their mandatory health insurance in private hospitals. To be really honest and without being […]

  • Healthcare: the best way is not to need it

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    By definition, healthcare plays an important role in any country’s economy, along with the food industry and many other sectors. One of the differences, though, is that, depending on the patient’s health state, it could become very expensive. This makes it the natural province for insurance companies. In Slovakia health […]