Crises mean changes to which business has to adapt. The rules of international cooperation change. The hierarchy of objectives and the business strategy evolve. The discussion entitled, “Economic challenges in times of crises. Economies in the third decade of the 21st century,” was held by entrepreneurs and politicians in Karpacz.
Peter Kremský, Chairman of the Finance Committee of the National Council of the Slovak Republic, argued that crises are immanent stages of history. After a while, it turned out that they contributed to a positive change. – “They can lead to opportunities that you have to be able to seize”, he said.
Positive outcomes are usually preceded by difficult situations. The pandemic, broken supply chains, and closed borders have made Europe’s rulers and pharmaceutical companies realise how dependent Europe is on active ingredients produced in such countries as China and India.
– “As much as 80% of these substances for drugs produced in Poland come from these two countries”, explained Katarzyna Dubno, Director of External Relations, ESG, and Health Economics at Adamed Pharma. – “At the time of the pandemic, we were wondering what we were going to produce medicines from. The term “drug security” was often used alongside military or energy security”, she added.
There were no widespread problems with medicines in Poland because pharmaceutical industry (both domestic and foreign) is developed. – “We had a large stockpile, but the crisis taught us that we should increase it. In addition, Europe started to wonder how to get back to the production of active substances”, she said.
