Von der Leyen claims EU would have collapsed if nations followed UK's speedy jab rollout
Joe Barnes, Brussels Correspondent
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The European Commission President said the sluggish distribution of Covid jabs was necessary to preserve unity across the 27-nation project. In an address to the European Parliament, Mrs von der Leyen said: "I cannot even imagine what would have happened if just a handful of big players, big member states had rushed to it and everybody else would have been left empty-handed. What would that have meant for our internal market and for the unity of Europe? It would have been, I think, the end of our community."