However, since you played the Google card, please take it back:
"What shady tactics did other countries use?"
Also easily available by searching Google.
Maybe the EU should also use shady tactics but it sounds more like a huge corruption and bureaucracy disaster.
By the way Biotech offered more vaccines and it was refused (even the CEO of Biotech gave an interview and said it was very confusing how the EU negotiated).
Please provide facts before making unsubstantiated claims.
This is how fake news proliferate. Don't contribute to it.
Corruption
Ursula von der Leyen. Just the wrong person. I would say it sounds very much like corruption to me.
https://www.politico.eu/article/the-scandal-hanging-over-urs...
Seems that France tried to help it's own company Sanofi.
https://www.thetimes.co.uk/article/macron-accused-of-holding...
Bureaucracy
Eu approved weeks later then others. If every day counts that is in my point of view a bureaucracy disaster.
https://www.reuters.com/article/health-coronavirus-vaccine-e...
Here also a claim from Pfilzer about ordering policy as too bureaucratically and slow.
https://www.theguardian.com/world/2021/jan/01/france-to-step...
The EU latency is a well known cost of the coordinating effort of multiple countries with different politics and perspectives. EU is not a country.
Make no mistake, without the EU the peripheral countries like mine would still be waiting for a vaccine.
Make no mistake, without the EU countries like France and Germany would be having similar, if not better, vaccination numbers than the UK/USA are having now.
The EU has been slow to order doses from viable partners and always seems to be the last to approve new vaccines. Some EU countries are only now giving their first vaccines.
What shady tactics did other countries use? To be fair it’s not reasonable to demand someone show data and then allude to “shady tactics” without providing evidence, though I don’t doubt that shady tactics were probably used all around.