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Originally Posted by jfman
Presumably if you leave the emotive issue of who is involved out of it a private sector entity has failed to fulfill orders and now has to decide with limited resource how, where and when to fulfil orders.
I presume that comes down to £££.
As always my cynicism around the UK media makes me wonder what news stories are being covered up right now as nationalism is deployed as a distraction.
Either the EU claims hold up or they don't, if they don't then AZ aren't in breach of contract. If they do, it's up to AZ to decide which contract to breach and now.
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If you're concerned about UK media reporting you should read the article linked by Andrew earlier in the week. It's in an Italian newspaper, La Repubblica (provided in English). In the interview, Pascal Soirot, the CEO of AstraZeneca, insists that the company has not failed to fulfil orders. He says the EU's initial demands on quantity and timescale were barely achievable on a best case scenario and AstraZeneca therefore contracted with them on a 'best effort' basis. They expect it to take time to get maximum yield out of a new factory. There have indeed been delays at the new plants within the EU.
The story has been brewing all week but the UK media is really only waking up to it now, and Gove's comments to the Today programme are the first time anyone within the UK government has explicitly waded into the issue.