What’s the most pressing issue in your country currently?
February 12, 2025
What’s your country’s currently most pressing issue?
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Housing crisis…..we have repeatedly rewarded the political parties who have consistently made it worse….and now they are working to remove last remaining protection for renters from rack rents
Russia — pointless war, mobilization of cannon fodder, world isolation, rashism. Lol. Plus economical problems and inflation. It seems to me that compared to this, the main problems of other countries should be insignificant. (P.S. yes, I forgot to write that it goes without saying that Russia has created more problems for Ukraine than it has received so far)
DOGE, Trump, and Musk threatening to undo American democracy. Congress doing nothing about it and discussing impeaching judges for doing their job. That’s just part of it lol.
Housing and low wages. Although the economy numbers are good, or goodish…that doesn’t translate, at least fast enough, to more money in people’s pockets.
Tbh not much, but as it’s election this year there are some discussion about who can provide the lowest taxes and electricity prices. That’s about it.
An ungovernable country because it is divided into three distinct parts, with no absolute majority and a refusal to compromise
Healthcare is in shambles
Just now I read a post, where representatives of the EMT employees note that their employees only got two sandwiches for a 16 hour shift.
There used to be a buzzfeed style quiz on a news website called “Chernobyl or Hungarian hospital?”
Today? That we are incapable of forming a government, again.
Normally it’s the usual scandals and under the carpet corruption.
But we normal people just battle with a constant inflation and a housing crisis.
America wanna take over greenland, and trying to find more money for military spendings to also defend Ukraine.
Russia – constant headache because nobody knows when those thieves and murderers will come to my country. Because of them we have to spend an incredible amount of money on weapons instead of making Poland a better country.
Russians are horrible neighbours and the most pressing issue in Poland.
There are more and more people in 🇨🇿 who spread Russian propaganda and it’s starting to affect also politics. As if everyone forgot about Munich betrayal in 1938, people are asking to repeat the history again and shady deals are being made without participation of the most important party. Look at 1938 what appeasement policy leads to
The underfunded healthcare and education system. The teachers and healthcare workers are underpaid in my country. A lot of doctors moves abroad instead of working in Hungary, and a lot of teachers change their profession, because of they are underpaid. So there is a high shortage in my country from healthcare professionals, and doctors.
Kosovo – Our main issue is with Serbia. We fought a liberation war in the late ’90s and only gained independence in 2008. Everything in Kosovo still revolves around our situation with Serbia. Every time things start to improve, Serbia does something to destabilize the country again.
We had elections last weekend, and the ruling party lost 5-6% of the vote, mostly because of a tweet from Richard Grenell (a U.S. diplomat) basically threatening to remove U.S. troops from Kosovo. The reality is that our existence depends on NATO’s presence here.
I don’t even get what Serbia thinks it gains if they somehow got Kosovo back. What would they even do with 1.6 million Albanians, when over 95% of the population is Albanian? They had Kosovo under Yugoslavia/Serbia for over 100 years, and they never invested anything here. Kosovo was by far the poorest part of Yugoslavia.
Nationality is still dangerous in the Balkans, at least for us. With the U.S. becoming more unpredictable and isolationist, I don’t know what comes next. On one hand, no one seriously thinks about another war with Serbia. On the other, we’re so fragile that one tweet from the U.S. can flip our lives 180 degrees.
Europe hasn’t shown any real effort to solve Kosovo’s issues. They’ve just left it as a frozen conflict, like Cyprus.
🇳🇴 Price of electricity being hold hostage by a lobby of energy companies including the state owned Statkraft. Incompetent politicians letting it happen as it increases their bags with money and power. The country is de facto ruled by EU due to an agreement nobody voted for, but everyone seems to be frightened about loosing. Nobody can grow a pair and deal with it, the money they siphon by just staying passive is numbing all initiatives.
Having friggin’ fascist farmer idiots for ministers that are incapable and too childish to solve the housing crisis, nitrogen crisis, asylum crisis etc.
The upcoming election and how much we’ll be fucked by it.
Worst(improbable but not impossible) outcome could be the fascists in the actual government.
Best outcome(same)would be a progressive pro EU, pro democracy coalition of the socdems, the greens and the democratic socialists.
Most probable: Conservative, neo-lib, right wing party has to choose between, or both the socdems and the greens.
And that would mean little positive change…
The school shooting last week I’d say. A lot of focus on school safety and the government are planning on changing the gun laws.
Other than that it’s probably gang violence.
Cost of living and housing crises for sure.
But also the Santorini earthquakes have everyone on edge a bit.
And many people remain incredibly pissed about the Tempe train catastrophe from two years ago.
Getting the currency exchange rate back up, so we’re not as “poor” anymore.
Fixing the energy-pricing mess caused by bad energy policies in all other countries around us.
Stopping criminal gangs from Sweden from getting too much of a foothold in Norway.
Housing prices are too high in more popular areas.
All in all, in theory small issues that are easily solved with competent leadership and action. Unfortunately that’s been lacking for a long time. New election coming up, which might shake things around a lot.
Everything
We have an immigration crisis because of every government since ’97
Economy crisis because of every government since the ’70s .
The south of England/ everyone else divide
Housing crisis which is to blame for 1) immigration 2) rich people buying multiple houses 3) government’s failing to build more houses and 4) government’s knocking down perfectly good houses because they wanted to modernise houses that didn’t Need modernised.
Health care because we’ve not been trying to make the career of a doctor or nurse desirable enough so our own people aren’t becoming nurses and doctors and government’s doing a whole tone of dhit to make it worse and worse
We have a bombing per day and there are no political parties in the riksdag that wants to do anything about it
Our presidential elections have been canceled in December due to allegedly Russian interference, next ones are in May and our president just resigned, today.
Netherlands: the war in Ukraine and the way Hegseth and Trump fucked up the negotiations by sowing their cards and saying exactly what they want out of it. Putins is a smart bully and is going to get more than their offer in the coming negotiations of course.
It’s all so unbelievably stupid.
The housing crisis, before anything else. Because whoever you are, this nonsense affects you.
You’re a tenant? Congrats, your purpose in life is to feed parasites. But you’re free or course, you can become homeless too if you wish.
Besides, you’ll have to go further and further away in the countryside. Which means costlier infrastructures (transport etc), more cars, more fossil fuels: perfect for ecology.
You’re a boss? Can’t attract workers, because they can’t live in the area. High housing costs decrease geographical mobility. But you’re free or course, you can buy them housing yourself at great expenses (it’s becoming common where I live), that’s cash you won’t have anymore for productive investments and innovation.
You want to rent a Airbnb? How cute. Don’t bring your kids. Because in my city we started taking the matter in our own hands, and harass the morons evicting us. Sabotaging the Airbnb, booing and harassing the egoists benefiting from that awful system for their egoist vacations.
But there’s better. You’re an owner? Congrats, thanks to your deluded belief “real estate must always go up no matter what” your own kids can’t buy a house anymore. Even with your inheritance it’s getting harder.
You’re a society which wants to house everyone? Nope. See, myself for instance, I benefit from legal protections limiting rent increase, which means my current flat with two bedrooms costs me less than finding a new one with only one bedroom. I live alone. That’s cool to have a guestroom, however in a fluid market I would go rent something more little, and a family with kids could rent my current flat.
All those issues could be solved with simple politics limiting Airbnb and the likes, and most of all promoting new constructions (at the expense of antiquated urbanistic rules, but most of all NIMBY, chronic underinvestment from the parasites, and their precious belief real estate value must soar constantly forever like it we lived under feudalistic privileges). Freeing energies, liberating purchasing power for the people, enticing them to have kids (more room and stability = more kids), helping the corporations, creating GDP through construction, etc
But we’re led by senile fat cats very concerned by the passive income they get from their peasants for doing nothing at all. And so nothing change, and the issues become worse for literally everyone.
This will honestly depend on who you ask (UK). I’d say that it’s one of the following (in no particular order):
1. Immigration (the biggest issue for many).
2. The cost of living crisis/the housing crisis or the economy in general. Or the north vs south divide.
3. Russian/American interference in the UK.
4. Keir Starmer being a bad prime minister or just anything to do with Rachel Reeves. Some people will call Starmer a commie and dictator, other people like myself will call him a Tory wearing a red tie.
5. The NHS crisis.
I don’t think that you can give a clear cut objective answer in what the most pressing issue in the UK is unfortunately and I might have missed something (fellow Brits correct me if necessary).
I would say legal grid lock we got atm – previous party made few illegal moves in state’s fundamental institutions (constitutional tribunal/Supreme Court). They started operating approving law and now since the gov changed it’s impossible to fix it – both leaving it be and fixing is technically illegal. What makes it worse old party considers the changes they made fine and don’t recognize fixes made by new gov as legal.
That created a situation where we have two contradicting legal systems. Considering those institutions are fundamental in how the state operates we soon might be in dire situation if one of the parties challenges presidential elections that are planned for May.
Tbh as I see it the fact that we’re close to hitting 10 to even 12 budget deficit is the scariest, and as always the eternal coalition does the same careless acts about it. Not gonna mention education/healthcare.
Ireland.
Housing crisis all the way baby.
Housing was completely privatised in the 90’s and when the banks collapsed no private business built anything.
Now even people with good well paid jobs can’t afford to own a home or even rent one.
Immigration, government who free international criminals, and government who spy journalists.
Low wages, especially the youth who have job offers of €700/month for a full time (and we’re told in the national TV that “we’re lazy who don’t want working). Bralian Drain, doctors in the public sector who aren’t paid enough and impossible shifts, violence against doctors and nurses, doctors who go to private clinics.
Where I currently live it’s pretty simple: the government didn’t do much after a mass shooting and the prices at grocery stores are too high
Germany: elections coming up in a week and a half, the far-right is polling worryingly high, and one of the formerly centrist parties (conservative, I suppose you’d call them center-right, but sane and democratic and all that) has been drifting increasingly towards the far-right over the last few years and recently broke some taboos regarding cooperation with the far-right.
On the positive side, massive wave of protest against the far-right and cooperation with them.
Other than that, nobody knows what kind of coalition will be viable post-election. All we know is that one will be needed, the christian conservative CDU is on track to win but not with a full majority, so coalition negotiations may take a while, and we can’t really afford to be leaderless in the current mess of an international situation.
Also, our economy is in shitty shape for a multitude of reasons, we have the same cost of living crisis as everyone else in Europe, we’ll have to massively increase our defense budget in light of the US pulling out of Europe and russia being a very real threat. That’ll come at the cost of social spending and future investments.
Short version: our biggest problem is the everything-at-once-ness of it all.
Excuse me while I go hyperventilate under the bed for a bit.
We’re still busy just trying to form a government over here.
Ideally without joining Hungary in Orbanland, because our far right [refuses to promise the following things](https://archive.is/SxciJ): Austria being free from Russian influence, being a reliable partner in the EU, valueing democracy & condemning political extremism
…I hate this timeline. At least talks broke down after that. But now what?
The housing shortage. Its a major problem, to few houses being build and an ever growing population. The whole housing crisis is an symptom of a wider problem of how we manage a growing population in a small country with all the problems this causes. And all the difficult choices we have to make.
I feel the most pressing issue is the influence that social media has from amateur reporters representing their amateur ideas and impressions.
Switzerland – Cost of healthcare
Healthcare costs are rising every year, with an increase of over 40% in the last decade, now averaging around 380 CHF/EUR per person. Each year, costs go up by another 5–10%. The main reason for this is that the healthcare system is required to cover almost all treatments and expenses without clear limits, which is ruthlessly exploited by various actors.
On top of that, some medications cost multiple times their actual value, and the national health authority is often threatened by bigpharma with supply stops if they refuse to accept these prices. Meanwhile, parliament is full of lobbyists from pharmaceutical companies and politicians on their payroll—when in reality, their power and ability to exploit the system should be limited.
So far, the only thing politicians have managed to agree on is increasing costs for low-income individuals. One way to lower monthly premiums is by increasing the deductible, but this often has severe consequences. A friend of mine, for example, had serious health issues but avoided seeing a doctor because she couldn’t afford to pay up to 4000 CHF/EUR (deductible) for treatment.
Giorgia Meloni. at least not for her braindead voters but she literally wants to privatize the concept of privatization itself; the average italian is only thinking about sanremo tbh (Carlo conti merda rivoglio Amadeus cristo dio9
Opinions will differ what is the most pressing one but imo it’s energy transition. We still get over 2/3 of our energy from fossil fuels and as far as I know our coal based power plants won’t be around for long. Meanwhile since communism ended we only talked about getting nuclear power plants but nothing really came out of this up to this point other than plans. We’re basically on the path to heavy dependence on energy / resources from other countries which will inevitably result in high energy prices.
Another thing are old tranmission networks that require modernization.
And the general feeling about our subsequent governments is that they are incapable of taking on any political issues that require something more than transfering money from one pocket to another.
I think we also approach the point where we may fall into middle income trap. Our companies are not innovative at all, we have excess of unnecessary self-employment, lack of capital and state investment and most of our greatest minds simply work for foreign companies. I don’t see a single cohesive vision about the future from our elites.
There is a big concern about how the landfills are going to fill up very soon, because of all the Dallas Mavericks merch Slovenians have been throwing away for the last week.
Sweden:
. Neoliberal austerity destroying public health and education.
. Racist shooters killing immigrants.
. Rising crime as juveniles from unassisted poor immigrant families join gang wars.
. NATO membership sucking up more money from our dwindling economy.
. Unions becoming weaker and depoliticized.
. Attempts at reindustrialization failing miserably as scammer investors scape their Northvolt (battery factory) mess with pockets full of public money.
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Housing crisis…..we have repeatedly rewarded the political parties who have consistently made it worse….and now they are working to remove last remaining protection for renters from rack rents
Russia — pointless war, mobilization of cannon fodder, world isolation, rashism. Lol. Plus economical problems and inflation. It seems to me that compared to this, the main problems of other countries should be insignificant. (P.S. yes, I forgot to write that it goes without saying that Russia has created more problems for Ukraine than it has received so far)
DOGE, Trump, and Musk threatening to undo American democracy. Congress doing nothing about it and discussing impeaching judges for doing their job. That’s just part of it lol.
Housing and low wages. Although the economy numbers are good, or goodish…that doesn’t translate, at least fast enough, to more money in people’s pockets.
Tbh not much, but as it’s election this year there are some discussion about who can provide the lowest taxes and electricity prices. That’s about it.
An ungovernable country because it is divided into three distinct parts, with no absolute majority and a refusal to compromise
Healthcare is in shambles
Just now I read a post, where representatives of the EMT employees note that their employees only got two sandwiches for a 16 hour shift.
There used to be a buzzfeed style quiz on a news website called “Chernobyl or Hungarian hospital?”
Today? That we are incapable of forming a government, again.
Normally it’s the usual scandals and under the carpet corruption.
But we normal people just battle with a constant inflation and a housing crisis.
America wanna take over greenland, and trying to find more money for military spendings to also defend Ukraine.
Russia – constant headache because nobody knows when those thieves and murderers will come to my country. Because of them we have to spend an incredible amount of money on weapons instead of making Poland a better country.
Russians are horrible neighbours and the most pressing issue in Poland.
There are more and more people in 🇨🇿 who spread Russian propaganda and it’s starting to affect also politics. As if everyone forgot about Munich betrayal in 1938, people are asking to repeat the history again and shady deals are being made without participation of the most important party. Look at 1938 what appeasement policy leads to
The underfunded healthcare and education system. The teachers and healthcare workers are underpaid in my country. A lot of doctors moves abroad instead of working in Hungary, and a lot of teachers change their profession, because of they are underpaid. So there is a high shortage in my country from healthcare professionals, and doctors.
Kosovo – Our main issue is with Serbia. We fought a liberation war in the late ’90s and only gained independence in 2008. Everything in Kosovo still revolves around our situation with Serbia. Every time things start to improve, Serbia does something to destabilize the country again.
We had elections last weekend, and the ruling party lost 5-6% of the vote, mostly because of a tweet from Richard Grenell (a U.S. diplomat) basically threatening to remove U.S. troops from Kosovo. The reality is that our existence depends on NATO’s presence here.
I don’t even get what Serbia thinks it gains if they somehow got Kosovo back. What would they even do with 1.6 million Albanians, when over 95% of the population is Albanian? They had Kosovo under Yugoslavia/Serbia for over 100 years, and they never invested anything here. Kosovo was by far the poorest part of Yugoslavia.
Nationality is still dangerous in the Balkans, at least for us. With the U.S. becoming more unpredictable and isolationist, I don’t know what comes next. On one hand, no one seriously thinks about another war with Serbia. On the other, we’re so fragile that one tweet from the U.S. can flip our lives 180 degrees.
Europe hasn’t shown any real effort to solve Kosovo’s issues. They’ve just left it as a frozen conflict, like Cyprus.
🇳🇴 Price of electricity being hold hostage by a lobby of energy companies including the state owned Statkraft. Incompetent politicians letting it happen as it increases their bags with money and power. The country is de facto ruled by EU due to an agreement nobody voted for, but everyone seems to be frightened about loosing. Nobody can grow a pair and deal with it, the money they siphon by just staying passive is numbing all initiatives.
Having friggin’ fascist farmer idiots for ministers that are incapable and too childish to solve the housing crisis, nitrogen crisis, asylum crisis etc.
The upcoming election and how much we’ll be fucked by it.
Worst(improbable but not impossible) outcome could be the fascists in the actual government.
Best outcome(same)would be a progressive pro EU, pro democracy coalition of the socdems, the greens and the democratic socialists.
Most probable: Conservative, neo-lib, right wing party has to choose between, or both the socdems and the greens.
And that would mean little positive change…
The school shooting last week I’d say. A lot of focus on school safety and the government are planning on changing the gun laws.
Other than that it’s probably gang violence.
Cost of living and housing crises for sure.
But also the Santorini earthquakes have everyone on edge a bit.
And many people remain incredibly pissed about the Tempe train catastrophe from two years ago.
Getting the currency exchange rate back up, so we’re not as “poor” anymore.
Fixing the energy-pricing mess caused by bad energy policies in all other countries around us.
Stopping criminal gangs from Sweden from getting too much of a foothold in Norway.
Housing prices are too high in more popular areas.
All in all, in theory small issues that are easily solved with competent leadership and action. Unfortunately that’s been lacking for a long time. New election coming up, which might shake things around a lot.
Everything
We have an immigration crisis because of every government since ’97
Economy crisis because of every government since the ’70s .
The south of England/ everyone else divide
Housing crisis which is to blame for 1) immigration 2) rich people buying multiple houses 3) government’s failing to build more houses and 4) government’s knocking down perfectly good houses because they wanted to modernise houses that didn’t Need modernised.
Health care because we’ve not been trying to make the career of a doctor or nurse desirable enough so our own people aren’t becoming nurses and doctors and government’s doing a whole tone of dhit to make it worse and worse
We have a bombing per day and there are no political parties in the riksdag that wants to do anything about it
Our presidential elections have been canceled in December due to allegedly Russian interference, next ones are in May and our president just resigned, today.
Netherlands: the war in Ukraine and the way Hegseth and Trump fucked up the negotiations by sowing their cards and saying exactly what they want out of it. Putins is a smart bully and is going to get more than their offer in the coming negotiations of course.
It’s all so unbelievably stupid.
The housing crisis, before anything else. Because whoever you are, this nonsense affects you.
You’re a tenant? Congrats, your purpose in life is to feed parasites. But you’re free or course, you can become homeless too if you wish.
Besides, you’ll have to go further and further away in the countryside. Which means costlier infrastructures (transport etc), more cars, more fossil fuels: perfect for ecology.
You’re a boss? Can’t attract workers, because they can’t live in the area. High housing costs decrease geographical mobility. But you’re free or course, you can buy them housing yourself at great expenses (it’s becoming common where I live), that’s cash you won’t have anymore for productive investments and innovation.
You want to rent a Airbnb? How cute. Don’t bring your kids. Because in my city we started taking the matter in our own hands, and harass the morons evicting us. Sabotaging the Airbnb, booing and harassing the egoists benefiting from that awful system for their egoist vacations.
But there’s better. You’re an owner? Congrats, thanks to your deluded belief “real estate must always go up no matter what” your own kids can’t buy a house anymore. Even with your inheritance it’s getting harder.
You’re a society which wants to house everyone? Nope. See, myself for instance, I benefit from legal protections limiting rent increase, which means my current flat with two bedrooms costs me less than finding a new one with only one bedroom. I live alone. That’s cool to have a guestroom, however in a fluid market I would go rent something more little, and a family with kids could rent my current flat.
All those issues could be solved with simple politics limiting Airbnb and the likes, and most of all promoting new constructions (at the expense of antiquated urbanistic rules, but most of all NIMBY, chronic underinvestment from the parasites, and their precious belief real estate value must soar constantly forever like it we lived under feudalistic privileges). Freeing energies, liberating purchasing power for the people, enticing them to have kids (more room and stability = more kids), helping the corporations, creating GDP through construction, etc
But we’re led by senile fat cats very concerned by the passive income they get from their peasants for doing nothing at all. And so nothing change, and the issues become worse for literally everyone.
This will honestly depend on who you ask (UK). I’d say that it’s one of the following (in no particular order):
1. Immigration (the biggest issue for many).
2. The cost of living crisis/the housing crisis or the economy in general. Or the north vs south divide.
3. Russian/American interference in the UK.
4. Keir Starmer being a bad prime minister or just anything to do with Rachel Reeves. Some people will call Starmer a commie and dictator, other people like myself will call him a Tory wearing a red tie.
5. The NHS crisis.
I don’t think that you can give a clear cut objective answer in what the most pressing issue in the UK is unfortunately and I might have missed something (fellow Brits correct me if necessary).
I would say legal grid lock we got atm – previous party made few illegal moves in state’s fundamental institutions (constitutional tribunal/Supreme Court). They started operating approving law and now since the gov changed it’s impossible to fix it – both leaving it be and fixing is technically illegal. What makes it worse old party considers the changes they made fine and don’t recognize fixes made by new gov as legal.
That created a situation where we have two contradicting legal systems. Considering those institutions are fundamental in how the state operates we soon might be in dire situation if one of the parties challenges presidential elections that are planned for May.
Tbh as I see it the fact that we’re close to hitting 10 to even 12 budget deficit is the scariest, and as always the eternal coalition does the same careless acts about it. Not gonna mention education/healthcare.
Ireland.
Housing crisis all the way baby.
Housing was completely privatised in the 90’s and when the banks collapsed no private business built anything.
Now even people with good well paid jobs can’t afford to own a home or even rent one.
Immigration, government who free international criminals, and government who spy journalists.
Low wages, especially the youth who have job offers of €700/month for a full time (and we’re told in the national TV that “we’re lazy who don’t want working). Bralian Drain, doctors in the public sector who aren’t paid enough and impossible shifts, violence against doctors and nurses, doctors who go to private clinics.
Where I currently live it’s pretty simple: the government didn’t do much after a mass shooting and the prices at grocery stores are too high
Germany: elections coming up in a week and a half, the far-right is polling worryingly high, and one of the formerly centrist parties (conservative, I suppose you’d call them center-right, but sane and democratic and all that) has been drifting increasingly towards the far-right over the last few years and recently broke some taboos regarding cooperation with the far-right.
On the positive side, massive wave of protest against the far-right and cooperation with them.
Other than that, nobody knows what kind of coalition will be viable post-election. All we know is that one will be needed, the christian conservative CDU is on track to win but not with a full majority, so coalition negotiations may take a while, and we can’t really afford to be leaderless in the current mess of an international situation.
Also, our economy is in shitty shape for a multitude of reasons, we have the same cost of living crisis as everyone else in Europe, we’ll have to massively increase our defense budget in light of the US pulling out of Europe and russia being a very real threat. That’ll come at the cost of social spending and future investments.
Short version: our biggest problem is the everything-at-once-ness of it all.
Excuse me while I go hyperventilate under the bed for a bit.
We’re still busy just trying to form a government over here.
Ideally without joining Hungary in Orbanland, because our far right [refuses to promise the following things](https://archive.is/SxciJ): Austria being free from Russian influence, being a reliable partner in the EU, valueing democracy & condemning political extremism
…I hate this timeline. At least talks broke down after that. But now what?
The housing shortage. Its a major problem, to few houses being build and an ever growing population. The whole housing crisis is an symptom of a wider problem of how we manage a growing population in a small country with all the problems this causes. And all the difficult choices we have to make.
I feel the most pressing issue is the influence that social media has from amateur reporters representing their amateur ideas and impressions.
Switzerland – Cost of healthcare
Healthcare costs are rising every year, with an increase of over 40% in the last decade, now averaging around 380 CHF/EUR per person. Each year, costs go up by another 5–10%. The main reason for this is that the healthcare system is required to cover almost all treatments and expenses without clear limits, which is ruthlessly exploited by various actors.
On top of that, some medications cost multiple times their actual value, and the national health authority is often threatened by bigpharma with supply stops if they refuse to accept these prices. Meanwhile, parliament is full of lobbyists from pharmaceutical companies and politicians on their payroll—when in reality, their power and ability to exploit the system should be limited.
So far, the only thing politicians have managed to agree on is increasing costs for low-income individuals. One way to lower monthly premiums is by increasing the deductible, but this often has severe consequences. A friend of mine, for example, had serious health issues but avoided seeing a doctor because she couldn’t afford to pay up to 4000 CHF/EUR (deductible) for treatment.
Giorgia Meloni. at least not for her braindead voters but she literally wants to privatize the concept of privatization itself; the average italian is only thinking about sanremo tbh (Carlo conti merda rivoglio Amadeus cristo dio9
Opinions will differ what is the most pressing one but imo it’s energy transition. We still get over 2/3 of our energy from fossil fuels and as far as I know our coal based power plants won’t be around for long. Meanwhile since communism ended we only talked about getting nuclear power plants but nothing really came out of this up to this point other than plans. We’re basically on the path to heavy dependence on energy / resources from other countries which will inevitably result in high energy prices.
Another thing are old tranmission networks that require modernization.
And the general feeling about our subsequent governments is that they are incapable of taking on any political issues that require something more than transfering money from one pocket to another.
I think we also approach the point where we may fall into middle income trap. Our companies are not innovative at all, we have excess of unnecessary self-employment, lack of capital and state investment and most of our greatest minds simply work for foreign companies. I don’t see a single cohesive vision about the future from our elites.
There is a big concern about how the landfills are going to fill up very soon, because of all the Dallas Mavericks merch Slovenians have been throwing away for the last week.
Sweden:
. Neoliberal austerity destroying public health and education.
. Racist shooters killing immigrants.
. Rising crime as juveniles from unassisted poor immigrant families join gang wars.
. NATO membership sucking up more money from our dwindling economy.
. Unions becoming weaker and depoliticized.
. Attempts at reindustrialization failing miserably as scammer investors scape their Northvolt (battery factory) mess with pockets full of public money.