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.
Please provide facts before making unsubstantiated claims.
This is how fake news proliferate. Don't contribute to it.