Transatlantic Trade and Investment Partnership(TTIP)
European standards on food safety may be brought significantly down to match US standards because the TTIP will impose a regulatory convergence. This would mean that far more genetically modified foods will be allowed on the market along with much more laxed regulations on the use of pesticides and hormones. The EU’s REACH program restricts hundreds of potentially toxic substances by stating that a product must be proved safe before used, but this may be condemned since the US have opposite beliefs |
Drug Trafficking
Drug abuse and drug trafficking is high in Southern Europe especially in Italy because it is in the route of heroin smuggling from Albania to Western Europe. Heroin traffickers have recently started using smaller vessels such as sailboats and speed boats to transport drugs from Albania to Italy and from Turkey to Spain. There is a particular increase of marijuana and cocaine consumption in young adults, in which the high demand for drugs causes drug smugglers and criminal groups to flourish in the region.
Drug abuse and drug trafficking is high in Southern Europe especially in Italy because it is in the route of heroin smuggling from Albania to Western Europe. Heroin traffickers have recently started using smaller vessels such as sailboats and speed boats to transport drugs from Albania to Italy and from Turkey to Spain. There is a particular increase of marijuana and cocaine consumption in young adults, in which the high demand for drugs causes drug smugglers and criminal groups to flourish in the region.
Austerity
Because of the enormous amounts of debt, Southern Europe has implemented austerity to reduce the debt, but it has only lead to a greater income disparity between rich and poor and inequality. In Greece, where the debt crisis is exceptionally high, unemployment doubled within the first three years of austerity, it has also decreased the average household income by 14%. Austerity has lead to a brain drain and a rapid labor deterioration because of reduced labor rights and increased uninsured work, thus leading to a reduced workforce having to provide increasing public services with shrinking resources.
Because of the enormous amounts of debt, Southern Europe has implemented austerity to reduce the debt, but it has only lead to a greater income disparity between rich and poor and inequality. In Greece, where the debt crisis is exceptionally high, unemployment doubled within the first three years of austerity, it has also decreased the average household income by 14%. Austerity has lead to a brain drain and a rapid labor deterioration because of reduced labor rights and increased uninsured work, thus leading to a reduced workforce having to provide increasing public services with shrinking resources.