Thousands of demonstrators in Paris were met with water cannon as protests against a new privacy law attracted larger crowds keen to air their grievances over coronavirus restrictions and France's slow vaccine rollout.
The European Union is reportedly “furious with AstraZeneca” over coronavirus vaccine production shortages which could cut initial delivery targets by more than 60 per cent, according to Sky News Reporter Adam Parsons.
AstraZeneca and the EU have a contract where the international organisation signed up to buy hundreds of millions of doses of the vaccine once it had been authorised.
Final approval is currently expected on Friday and the European Union was expecting to receive 80 million doses over the course of the first three months of 2021.
However, AstraZeneca revealed last week that figure would be cut by 60 per cent or more due to production difficulties.
The EU have rejected this explanation and insist the contract they signed says there will be no hierarchy or special treatment and yet the UK supply is expected to continue as planned and uninterrupted over the next few months.
Mr Parsons said “at its heart this is about the European Union thinking that it is being trea
Jim Rudisill
for The Hawk Eye
WAPELLO Although the remaining Fiscal Year 2022 budget proposals for Louisa County departments and other spending categories were reviewed Friday by the county board of supervisors, it was a later discussion on dealing with next year’s proposed salary increases that ended up dominating the meeting.
The salary discussion has been the elephant in the room for the supervisors since the budget reviews began last week.
Traditionally the supervisors have provided a general percentage amount to the various departments, and the department heads then have incorporated that salary increase into their individual spending plans.
Often the percentage figure supplied by the supervisors has been based on the percentage increase recommended for the county’s elected officials by the county compensation board.
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