Hilarious.
When individual EU nations decided to pause the roll out of the AZ jab, the EU haters were quick to blame the EU.
When an individual nation (Italy) decided to restrict export to Australia, it was the EU's fault.
When the EU nations do something positive like export millions of doses of vaccine (of which the UK has currently exported ZERO) guess what..
Italy had to obtain authorisation from the EU.
It was the big players with the greatest power in the EU which spread false information regarding the AZ vaccine, France, Germany, Belgium some others,
There may be 27 countries in the EU, but things only get done if Germany, France or Belgium say so.
The waters have been muddied to much by the European leaders of individual countries namely the power houses, and Europeans no longer want the az vaccine, it is seen as inferior and problematic now.
Would you want it if you were in the over 65 population and they started saying it didn't work for your age group, and then less than 2 weeks later it's magically ok.
If you were in your under 40's category and there was questions regarding it creating blood clots which you may die from, and the vaccine was suspended for a couple of weeks while investigations took place would you want it?
The problem is the EU have shot themselves in the foot because they only banked in 2 horses, the az vaccine and the French one that didn't work and got canned.
Pfizer was an afterthought and likely because it was linked to America they felt it wasn't worth pursuing until after the other 2, the EU was also hung on driving down prices more so than they were about making water tight contracts.
The UK on the other hand payed better due diligence and got there sticky fingers in as many pies as possible.
You can bash the UK as much as you like, and more often than not you do, but the EU or at least the power houses within the EU are far from unaccountable for the position they now find themselves in.
