• The European Union's responses to the COVID-19 crisis: How to fight a pandemic with the internal market 

      Tuominen, Tomi; Salminen, Mirva Miia Tuulikki; Halonen, Kirsi-Maria (Journal article; Tidsskriftartikkel; Peer reviewed, 2022-10-26)
      In a liberalized market economy, states tend to purchase supplies required for producing publicly funded services, such as healthcare, from the markets instead of producing them themselves. The availability of critical supplies thus becomes a question of supply-side availability and supply chain management, and therefore their availability is conceptualized in terms of security of supply. The European ...
    • Security of Supply: A National or European Competence? 

      Tuominen, Tomi; Halonen, Kirsi-Maria; Salminen, Mirva Miia Tuulikki (Journal article; Tidsskriftartikkel; Peer reviewed, 2023-10-16)
      Security of supply refers to governmental policies that aim to secure the availability of critical products at all times. The COVID-19 pandemic brought to fore the importance of such policies, as suddenly there was an overwhelming need for critical medical supplies that the markets were not able to fulfil. Following the pandemic, the EU has started to construct its own security of supply policy, ...