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Originally Posted by Hugh
No, it's a rebuttal of "it's been there 20 years", as if there were only UK funding for the company - the EU helped fund the research which made the production possible.
I don't think the EU has any claim on the O/AZ vaccines produced in the UK, but the denial of the facts that EU put some funding into the process is not accurate.
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Unless I’m completely misreading the various documents that have been posted this afternoon, the key factor is whether EU money paid to AstraZeneca as a direct consequence of the contract was used to build vaccine production facilities in the UK
If the EU wants to lay claim to the output of anything in the UK that has at some point benefited from an EU grant, that’s ridiculous, and obviously isn’t going to get them anywhere. EU development funds have been spent all over the place. And let’s not even get started on the whole business of us being net contributors to the whole party, so it was our flaming money before they appropriated it and then sent it back across the channel with an EU flag on it. But I digress ...