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Re:EU vaccine rollout severely lags behind by cmarschner on Monday March 22, 2021 @07:46PM (#26549059)
The problem with this statement is that the EU is not a government - it is an intergovernmental body.

Nationalization etc. happens on the national level only.

Re:EU vaccine rollout severely lags behind by crocodiletears on Monday March 22, 2021 @08:26PM (#26549376)
Yes, but wrt nationalization, that was more a statement of where I would draw the line if I had to choose whether the EU was being a good/bad actor rather than the EU's actual capacity as an organization.

I would argye that the EU merits government status, given the degree to which it dictates standards in the eurozone. Even though it is fairly weak, and lacks enforcement capacity on its own, my understanding is that the EU as a body has the capacity to set standards for the block as a whole, restricting export of certain goods like the vaccine for example. I could be wrong, though?