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Sokol, Tomislav; Mijatović, Nikola --- "EU health law and policy and the Eurozone crisis" [2017] ELECD 585; in Hervey, K. Tamara; Young, A. Calum; Bishop, E. Louise (eds), "Research Handbook on EU Health Law and Policy" (Edward Elgar Publishing, 2017) 291

Book Title: Research Handbook on EU Health Law and Policy

Editor(s): Hervey, K. Tamara; Young, A. Calum; Bishop, E. Louise

Publisher: Edward Elgar Publishing

ISBN (hard cover): 9781785364716

Section: Chapter 12

Section Title: EU health law and policy and the Eurozone crisis

Author(s): Sokol, Tomislav; Mijatović, Nikola

Number of pages: 22

Abstract/Description:

The ongoing Eurozone crisis has dominated discussion of the EU for several years, and has raised questions about its future, with many accusing the EU institutions of sacrificing social values on the altar of fiscal rigour. Tomislav Sokol and Nikola Mijatovi_ examine the effects the Eurozone crisis has had on national health systems. An overview of Eurozone economic governance rules precedes an analysis of their dramatic effects on access to healthcare, free movement of healthcare professionals and regulation of medicines. The chapter shows how differential application of fiscal governance rules to different Member States undermines the solidarity on which European health systems are based.