Re:EU blocks export of AstraZeneca Covid-19 vaccines to Aust...
by s1artibartfast on Thursday March 04, 2021 @03:55PM
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More explicitly, The contract the EU signed gave no priority to the EU over other customers, no exclusivity to EU based on manufacturing location, and no penalty for late delivery.
The EU accidentally leaked its own contract with AstraZeneca after trying to redact it. It showed that AZ were correct about the wording of the contract and the EU had been lying. There is no real disagreement about that anymore: the EU is on the wrong side of that dispute which is why there's been a lot of posturing but no court cases.
BTW several EU countries have stockpiles of the AZ vaccine they aren't using because their citizens aren't turning up for appointments or volunteering to be vaxxed.