EU blocks export of AstraZeneca Covid-19 vaccines to Australia

Re:EU blocks export of AstraZeneca Covid-19 vaccines to Aust... by jamesrr39 on Thursday March 04, 2021 @01:47PM (#26346422)

I'm not sure if you read my comment? But like I said, on the national level (for example France in the link you posted) I remember hearing some negative comments, but on the EU commission level (the institution that sits in Brussels), I don't remember hearing anything explicitly negative.

Happy to be proved wrong though.

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Re:EU blocks export of AstraZeneca Covid-19 vaccines to Aust... by g_p on Thursday March 04, 2021 @02:16PM (#26346836)

Not aware of having seen any statements from the EC itself on the topic (it was approved by the EMA for all ages), but I think it unlikely the EC itself would have said anything, if only for one simple self-centred reason:

It would be shooting itself in the foot to admit the vaccines it had bought in a group-buy scheme were ineffective or in any way sub-standard. Member states would be furious, and Ursula would have been gone.

This article has a summary of statements from different politicians - https://news.sky.com/story/covid-19-what-eu-leaders-said-abo... The closest I can see for the EC is one from Ursula, with the article reporting:

"She then suggested the UK had compromised on "safety and efficacy" by approving the jab so early, despite the EMA reaching the same conclusions as the UK's internationally-respected MHRA which approved the vaccine."

(That is realistically just her attempts to excuse a slower approval process that ultimately reached exactly the same outcome)

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