The EU s Vaccination Disaster
Von der Leyen under growing pressure over vaccine disaster. Southeast Europe ignores EU and orders Russian and Chinese vaccines. BERLIN/BRUSSELS | 02/04/2021
BERLIN/BRUSSELS (Own report) - The EU Commission and its President Ursula von der Leyen are coming under growing pressure over their Covid-19 vaccine procurement blunders. Von der Leyen s predecessor Jean-Claude Juncker has criticized not only the significant protraction of contract negotiations. It is particularly damaging that the export controls introduced under German pressure give the impression that the suffering of other people, especially in poorer countries does not affect the EU. Japan is now developing its own national vaccine production to ensure access to vaccines, even if an EU export ban is imposed. Anger is also growing in non-EU countries in Southeast Europe. ”We wanted to go for western vaccines, an official from North Macedonia declared. However,