European Commission President Ursula von der Leyen has conceded that individual countries could have vaccinated their populations quicker had they acted alone rather than relying on the EU’s collective vaccine purchase and distribution program. She has effectively acknowledged that her vaccine procurement program violated a fundamental principle of the European Union’s founding treaties.
he relief flooding through the nation’s veins as we sail by the vaccination targets is palpable. My own first dose was administered this week, along with a spoonful of sugar from a cheerful Filipino nurse, who turned to her colleague, saying “Could you check his details, please? He doesn’t look old enough to have it yet.” It took me a moment to realise that I’d already told her my date of birth, which definitely puts me in the right bracket. That NHS charm school is obviously working overtime.
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