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Re:Europe's Vaccine Disaster by MichaelRazum on Saturday January 30, 2021 @09:03AM (#25969138)
Sure.

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...

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Re:Europe's Vaccine Disaster by HugoDaniel on Saturday January 30, 2021 @09:33AM (#25969354)
Those corruption cases must be verified and dealt with by the law.

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.

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