Reuters Reuters 6 February, 2021, 7:10 pm Syringes and a dose of the Pfizer-BioNTech COVID-19 vaccine are seen at the elderly home Ballesol, as the coronavirus disease (COVID-19) outbreak continues, in Madrid, Spain January 25, 2021. REUTERS/Susana Vera BRUSSELS (Reuters) – In a meeting last week in the Europa building in Brussels, home of the European Union’s political leadership, diplomats for the 27 member states were desperate. The EU had paid billions of euros toward shots to curb a pandemic that was killing thousands of Europeans every day. Now vaccine-makers had cut back deliveries, and the EU was trapped in a public fight. “This is a catastrophe,” French ambassador Philippe Leglise-Costa told the Jan. 27 meeting, according to a diplomatic note seen by Reuters.