European Policy Analysis
role of the transnational agreements for issues of recognition and for overcoming the national frontiers by the migration .
After the presentation of the article ’ s conclusions , the need of further research on this topic seems to also be plausible . As it has already been mentioned , the phenomenon of the Greek physicians ’ migration to the German health sector with the intention of undergoing medical specialization training is still a work in progress . It would also be interesting if the same research did not focus exclusively on the physicians , who are practicing their medical specialization training , but also on physicians that are already specialized and have migrated to Germany , or on the potential migrants that are still in Greece and would like to migrate to Germany , for the purposes of examining and comparing their motivations with those of their migrated colleagues in the German health sector . Also , the comparison between migration cases of other physicians from EU countries in Germany with different health structures , like the Romanian case , would be of interest for migration studies and the research of health policy systems .
Other aspects concerning the effects of this phenomenon and the role of the EU are also worthy of further research . The EU was not only directly involved in this migration case through the provision of the legal framework , but also indirectly through its participation in the Troika , which also imposed austerity measures on the Greek health sector . While the German health sector gains medical personnel , the Greek health sector faces a loss of its trained physicians , indicating a case of brain drain . This migration case takes place in an area , which provides the possibility of free movement , establishment , and working activity , while every country is at the same time still responsible for funding and organizing its health sectors . This case of migration also highlights the dangers that arise within the EU regarding the distributions of physicians throughout the member states , due to unequal conditions of competition for health workers between richer and poorer health systems . This aspect should be considered a topic for the researchers , by especially focusing on the creation of possibilities for the financially weak national health sectors to transform the existing brain drain phenomena into brain gain within the EU .
Acknowledgments
The work presented in this article has been undertaken in the context of my extended research for my PhD thesis . I am grateful to Dr . Uwe Hunger for the constructive discussion and his valuable advice , but also to Dr . Leandros Fischer and to Sotirios Karampampas for their feedback and their ideas , which encourage me to write this article .
154