The Itinera Institute is proud to present it's new book:"The future of Health Care: the diagnosis & treatments". The Belgian Healthcare system possesses numerous assets, but is also seriously threatened by the new challenges of the 21st century.

The financial crisis we’re going through urges us to fundamentally rethink our financial system. We often pretend to be entirely dependent of foreign solutions for our problems. In this nota, it is shown we can actually control for a few things ourselves.

Temporary agency work has known an important expansion during the last 40 years. Today, 3,3 million agency workers are employed on a daily basis in the European Union. In 2012 they will be 5 million.

Political crisis is no longer 'news' in Belgium or the Netherlands. Less well understood is the toll that this controversy is taking on patterns of economic policymaking.

In the context of globalisation and ageing, everybody agrees that short term measures have no future. Since 1960 the average pension length has gone from 8 to more than 20 years. It is expected that in the coming 40 years there will be tree times less actives for every pensioner.