AFAIK this is not correct, they negotiated on stuff like liability. Not price.
Re:AstraZeneca/EU contract
by DoingIsLearning on Friday January 29, 2021 @02:36PM
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For 3 whole months though? This isn't a 20 year down the line trade agreement it's a medical emergency.
I don't think that it has anything to do with deliveries. They were not shipping vaccines when EU was negotiating the liability stuff. Instead, they put it on the contract that both UK and EU facilities are to be used and no other contracts to prevent EU's deliveries.
However, I ask again, why is no media outlet questioning our representatives about why they burned 3 months of people dying, to then come up with essentially the same terms as the unilateral contracts that the Dutch and the French were initially drafting?
This isn't a contract to squeeze the best deal out of AZN, it is an emergency purchase, what was there to negotiate?