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Coronavirus vaccine: European Union citizens receive their jabs
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The bloc's internal relations soured over the weekend as member states split over the vaccine rollout. On Friday, Austrian Chancellor Sebastian Kurz said that vaccine doses were not being spread evenly among member states despite an agreement within the bloc to do so according to population. Addressing European Commission President Ursula von der Leyen and European Council President Charles Michel, he claimed that the rollout isn't "equal". He said: "In recent days ... we have discovered that ... deliveries of vaccine doses by pharma companies to individual EU member states are not being implemented on an equal basis following the pro rata population key.