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Originally Posted by papa smurf
Given that they earlier suggested the drug would not be allowed to leave the EU this is priceless.
Germany is urging Brussels to allow members states to block exports of EU-made jabs - to ensure that the continent gets its "fair share".
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The root of their problem is they hedged too much. A few doses here, a few doses there, across lots of different manufacturers. They also dithered, at least when it came to the Oxford-AstraZeneca vaccine, which they ordered three months later than the UK did. We moved faster, we made better decisions and we also were able to take advantage of world beating research from one of the best universities in the world, linking up highly promising, government sponsored work at Oxford with a world leading drug company headquartered in Cambridge, all of which enabled us to get production going quickly and at a fair price. We are reaping the benefits of political and economic power exercised at the appropriate level while the EU’s attempt to use vaccine procurement to prove they’re so over Brexit has now blown up in their sclerotic, bureaucratic faces.
Already this week we’ve had a badly briefed German hack trying to question the efficacy of the Ox-AZ vaccine, then the German government suggesting an export ban on vaccine made in the EU, and now a Greek Eurocrat demanding the export of vaccines contracted by the British government for use in the UK. What a mess.