Greek Learning About Politics Blog

BRAIN STORM!!!!!

let’s  highlight the most common and relevant words on the proposed changes for pharmacies, according to the input from this scenario

.the pharmacies are characterized by both dimensions,

the economic and the social one. We have pharmacists, people and health in one side and in the other side we have money and law/rules. Currently the Greek pharmacies are closer to the first dimension while the proposed changes will lead towards the second

Due to the ongoing Greek crisis,the Greek pharmacy is on crisi too!!!!!!

Greece has become the experiment lab in Europe. While European legislation and the European court of law dictate that only pharmacists have the right to open pharmacies, the Greek government tries to give the right to huge corporations to open pharmacies in Greece. They don’t pay the their huge debts to the pharmacies, pushing pharmacists to close their pharmacies because they don’t have the money to stay in business. At the same time they try to open the operation hours pushing small one person operated  pharmacies to extinction. This is will not open the way for new pharmacists, as people hopes. Instead only the upcoming super-pharmacies will be able to stay alive and will divide the market between them. We already witnessed this phenomenon in Sweden and Turkey and now it’s time for Greece to pay the toll