EU anger at AstraZeneca stance
European Union health commissioner Stella Kyriakides voiced the bloc’s anger at suggestions from AstraZeneca boss Pascal Soriot that the company was contractually obliged to supply the UK with its full vaccine allotment ahead of the EU. The company has said only 25% of the 100 million doses the EU was expecting in the first quarter of 2021 would be delivered, while the UK would receive 2m doses a week. AstraZeneca claims that its contract only obliges it to make “best efforts” to supply the EU. This one looks likely to run and run. The Guardian, France24 and Euronews have details and Deutsche Welle has a fact check.
Luxembourg Prime Minister Xavier Bettel. Picture from the Government of Luxembourg.
“Hate speech cannot be accepted, not against Jews, not against gypsies, gays or the disabled,” says Luxembourg Prime Minister Xavier Bettel, after signing a landmark agreement to compensate his country’s Holocaust survivors.
By Eldad Beck, Israel Hayom via JNS
Following an agreement signed on Wednesday by the government of Luxembourg to compensate Holocaust survivors, return looted art and restitute dormant bank accounts, Prime Minister Zavier Bettel told
Israel Hayom that the fight against anti-Semitism is not over.
“It wouldn’t be right to say that Luxembourg is protected against anti-Semitism and racism now,” he said in the wake of the deal, which was also signed by the World Jewish Restitution Organization, the Jewish community of Luxembourg and the Luxembourg Foundation for the Memory of the Shoah.
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The Cinqfontaines Monastery: Soon after Nazi Germany occupied Luxembourg, the Cinqfontaines Monastery was converted into an internment and collection point for Jews being deported from Luxembourg. Men, women and children of all ages were held here in appalling conditions until deported to death camps. [Photo: Luxembourg Tourism]
U.S. Embassy Congratulates Luxembourg for its Historic Agreement on Outstanding Holocaust Issues
The United States Embassy in Luxembourg congratulates the Grand Duchy of Luxembourg for signing an historic agreement today with the Jewish Community of Luxembourg, together with the World Jewish Restitution Organization and the Luxembourg Foundation for the Memory of the Shoah.
It is only fitting this historic agreement is being signed on International Holocaust Remembrance Day, a day where Governments and Jewish Communities around the world remember the six million Jewish victims of the Holocaust.
The origins of this agreement date back to 2009, when the United States, Luxembourg and 45 other countries committed to rectify the consequences of the Nazi-era wrongful asset seizures and to promote the welfare of Holocaust survivors around the world by endorsing the Terezin Declaration.