Re: Britain outside the EU
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Originally Posted by 1andrew1
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Indeed several EU countries did initially try and successfully procured vaccines, but this was then taken from them by the EU
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By the spring, it looked like vaccine procurement would also be a free-for-all; France, Germany, the Netherlands, and Italy formed the “Inclusive Vaccine Alliance” and secured up to 400 million doses of the Oxford/AstraZeneca shot, to be distributed across the EU on a population basis. Politico reports that France and Spain were negotiating separately with Moderna.
The European Commission decided in June to step in and buy vaccines on behalf of all member states, absorbing the Inclusive Vaccine Alliance and its contract. While big countries would always be able to buy vaccines on their own, the Commission argued it made sense to negotiate together to obtain better prices and help smaller countries get vaccines too.
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https://qz.com/1968175/why-the-eu-ha...d-on-vaccines/
That worked out well for them.
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