20-01-2021, 05:50 PM
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Originally Posted by bread
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getting closer to cptpp ....https://www.express.co.uk/news/polit...-truss-eu-news
22-01-2021, 12:43 PM
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https://www.express.co.uk/news/world...very-fund-cashPolitics before a global pandemic.
22-01-2021, 01:40 PM
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Originally Posted by Cinderella
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https://www.express.co.uk/news/world...very-fund-cashPolitics before a global pandemic.
26-01-2021, 08:03 PM
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PROOF if any more were needed that power is the motivation of EU.https://www.reuters.com/article/us-h...-idUSKBN29U0Y9
AstraZeneca, which developed its shot with Oxford University, told the EU on Friday it could not meet agreed supply targets up to the end of March.
An EU official involved in the talks told Reuters that meant a 60% cut to 31 million doses, a blow to the bloc which was already facing criticism for lagging the United States and Britain with its vaccination campaign.
After Friday’s unexpected announcement, the EU asked AstraZeneca to find flexible ways to deliver doses and urged it to disclose vaccine production and distribution data.
“The answers of the company have not been satisfactory so far,” Kyriakides said after a meeting with the company, adding a new meeting would be held later in the day.
Earlier on Monday, the head of the EU executive Ursula von der Leyen had a call with AstraZeneca’s chief Pascal Soriot to remind him of the firm’s commitments.
26-01-2021, 08:09 PM
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Originally Posted by Cinderella
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PROOF if anywhere needed that power is the motivation of EU.https://www.reuters.com/article/us-h...-idUSKBN29U0Y9
EU in another fine mess. They are responsible but blame others.
26-01-2021, 08:39 PM
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Originally Posted by JBR
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I'm just grateful that we have a production company in our own country for the vaccine. If we were totally reliant on the EU providing them we'd be up the creek without a paddle. Then, of course, Oxford University were involved in its development, so I think we deserve our own source.
Oh yes, the EU are showing their true colours again - led as usual by Germany who were told off for buying their own vaccines before EU approval, like Hungary has too.
The German media scare stories of AstraZeneca's supposed low efficacy are no coincidence either, yet funnily enough the EU are almost begging AstraZeneca to put their orders above all others when they haven't even approved it yet!
It looks like none of it will make any difference for the EU, not only because as usual the 27 cannot agree what to do next but because now the world has seen what the EU is doing and it's been covered in media worldwide.
That's not a good look for the EU.
Again.
There's a great piece in The Telegraph which I hope you can read, despite it being subscription-only unless you set up a free trial.
"Spiteful vaccine supranationalism can't distract from the Covid scandal that could sink the EU"
"The EU’s vaccine calamity is spiralling into dysfunctional skulduggery worthy of a banana republic. AstraZeneca’s admission on Friday that it would not be able to supply the bloc with 300 million doses in accordance with its original timetable, has set in motion a startling sequence of events in Europe – from the perplexingly spiteful to the sublimely deceitful."
"The fact remains however, that the EU’s vaccine supply is so vulnerable to hitches at least partly because the Commission woefully failed to secure hundreds of millions of doses of the Pfizer vaccine for member states back in November.
Paroxysms of rage are still convulsing across member states over the European Medical Agency’s heel-dragging. A charitable assessment might attribute the oversight to the EU machine’s brittle fixation with price over supply. But earlier this year France’s Minister for European Affairs was forced to deny allegations that the EU passed up the opportunity to order more German-made vaccines in the interests of French Pharma firm Sanofi (whose vaccine development has since been delayed). This would have raised questions about whether the EU had made corrupt use of public funds and broken competition law"
"The EU’s conduct threatens to merely further damage its credibility. For one, it smacks of hypocrisy. Lest we forget how the Commission berated British politicians back in December for triumphalist vaccine nationalism after the UK became the first country to approve the Pfizer vaccine “This is not a football competition, we are talking about the life and health of people,” European Commission spokesman Eric Mamer castigated at the time. Such pieties now look laughable in the face of EU’s own aggressive display of vaccine superstate-nationalism."
https://www.telegraph.co.uk/politics...covid-scandal/
26-01-2021, 11:02 PM
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Originally Posted by Zaphod
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Oh yes, the EU are showing their true colours again - led as usual by Germany who were told off for buying their own vaccines before EU approval, like Hungary has too.
The German media scare stories of AstraZeneca's supposed low efficacy are no coincidence either, yet funnily enough the EU are almost begging AstraZeneca to put their orders above all others when they haven't even approved it yet!
It looks like none of it will make any difference for the EU, not only because as usual the 27 cannot agree what to do next but because now the world has seen what the EU is doing and it's been covered in media worldwide.
That's not a good look for the EU.
Again.
There's a great piece in The Telegraph which I hope you can read, despite it being subscription-only unless you set up a free trial.
"Spiteful vaccine supranationalism can't distract from the Covid scandal that could sink the EU"
"The EU’s vaccine calamity is spiralling into dysfunctional skulduggery worthy of a banana republic. AstraZeneca’s admission on Friday that it would not be able to supply the bloc with 300 million doses in accordance with its original timetable, has set in motion a startling sequence of events in Europe – from the perplexingly spiteful to the sublimely deceitful."
"The fact remains however, that the EU’s vaccine supply is so vulnerable to hitches at least partly because the Commission woefully failed to secure hundreds of millions of doses of the Pfizer vaccine for member states back in November.
Paroxysms of rage are still convulsing across member states over the European Medical Agency’s heel-dragging. A charitable assessment might attribute the oversight to the EU machine’s brittle fixation with price over supply. But earlier this year France’s Minister for European Affairs was forced to deny allegations that the EU passed up the opportunity to order more German-made vaccines in the interests of French Pharma firm Sanofi (whose vaccine development has since been delayed). This would have raised questions about whether the EU had made corrupt use of public funds and broken competition law"
"The EU’s conduct threatens to merely further damage its credibility. For one, it smacks of hypocrisy. Lest we forget how the Commission berated British politicians back in December for triumphalist vaccine nationalism after the UK became the first country to approve the Pfizer vaccine “This is not a football competition, we are talking about the life and health of people,” European Commission spokesman Eric Mamer castigated at the time. Such pieties now look laughable in the face of EU’s own aggressive display of vaccine superstate-nationalism."
https://www.telegraph.co.uk/politics...covid-scandal/
The EU can't buy the AZ vaccine because it's against EU rules until its approved.
The UK contracts are also based on guaranteed supply where the EU contracts are based on price.
Epic fail for the EU.
26-01-2021, 11:18 PM
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James Dyson is sticking one on Brussels as wellhttps://foxhole.news/2021/01/26/jame...r-regulations/
27-01-2021, 12:33 AM
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Originally Posted by Bread
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James Dyson is sticking one on Brussels as wellhttps://foxhole.news/2021/01/26/jame...r-regulations/
I've a lot of respect for that man.
First of many, I'm sure.
27-01-2021, 01:14 AM
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Originally Posted by Bread
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The EU can't buy the AZ vaccine because it's against EU rules until its approved.The UK contracts are also based on guaranteed supply where the EU contracts are based on price.
Epic fail for the EU.
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