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Re:EU preparing legal case against AstraZeneca over vaccine ... by zpeti on Thursday April 22, 2021 @03:51AM (#26899997)
Why not mention the very negative mentions of AZ by macron and merkel? Macron even wanted to stop all foreign vaccines and rely on some French one.

I have no love for Putin or Johnson but this most certainly wasn’t down to just their politics. EU leaders are massively at fault here with their rhetoric too.

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Re:EU preparing legal case against AstraZeneca over vaccine ... by rsynnott on Thursday April 22, 2021 @05:32AM (#26900644)
This is your brain on the Daily Mail, I think... There is no approved French vaccine.
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Re:EU preparing legal case against AstraZeneca over vaccine ... by zpeti on Thursday April 22, 2021 @05:46AM (#26900736)
Macron wanted to use this vaccine as a matter of national pride. He talked down Astrazeneca because of it: https://www.theguardian.com/world/2021/jan/26/french-self-es...

Things have changed a lot since then, it's been forgotten.

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Re:EU preparing legal case against AstraZeneca over vaccine ... by rsynnott on Thursday April 22, 2021 @08:37AM (#26902035)
I'm not sure how you're getting that from that article (which doesn't even _mention_ AZ). If France had wanted to specifically use a French vaccine it would presumably have pursued an independent purchasing model, like the UK and Hungary.
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