The EU v UK vaccine tussle

[anonymous-user]

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[Cupramax]

Funny how we’ve heard next to nothing from the EU throughout all this pandemic, despite its members like Italy and Spain being in dier straights and now suddenly they’re getting all punchy. First come first served like anything else is how it should be. If they don’t like it perhaps they should be a bit more prepared, for all the mistakes the govt has made, vaccination is not one of them.

[JagLover]

The EU is trying to divert attention from their own failures by blaming others for "stealing" their vaccines.

Hopefully this should have no impact on our own vaccination programme and is just noise.

[frisbee]

It isn't as simple as first come first served.

If this company has made a contractual agreement with the EU, or anyone, promising to supply a certain number of doses then it is contractually obliged to deliver them.

Ultimately where the factories are physically located will be the deciding factor.

[anonymous-user]

It's a weird situation.

Seems like they want to come to the show late and still get the best seats.

I can understand the need to protect EU citizens, but they're going about this in a really poor manner.

[essayer]

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[Ridgemont]

The original article which pretty much lays out AZ’s position (and makes the EU look like cretins)

https://www.repubblica.it/cronaca/2021/01/26/news/...

[anonymous-user]

Ridgemont said:

The original article which pretty much lays out AZ’s position (and makes the EU look like cretins)

https://www.repubblica.it/cronaca/2021/01/26/news/...

Which they are

[don'tbesilly]

Perhaps they'll sort things out tonight, but it does sound as any blame is going only one way?

[skahigh]

Good piece from Tom Chivers today on this.

[don'tbesilly]

This isn't going well!



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https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/world-europe-55822602[u...

[bitchstewie]

It's a right old ugly mess isn't it.

Have they even approved the AZ vaccine?

[don'tbesilly]

bhstewie said:

It's a right old ugly mess isn't it.

Have they even approved the AZ vaccine?

No!

[AngryYorkshireman]

anonymous said:

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It's worse than that, they want to reserve the seats without paying a deposit so no-one else can use them, haven't even decided if they want to watch the show and then pay cost price if they decide to turn up.

I'm sure if we sent some vaccines over from the UK they'd hold them up in customs until they were useless just because the driver was eating a ham sandwich.

The EU never fails to disappoint.

It'd be funny if it wasn't so serious.

[buggalugs]

The EU lady was on the radio earlier talking about the lives at risk by the virus. But our lives are at risk by the virus too. So I guess it really is first come first served. We committed 3 months before they did.

Remember all the moaners last year when the UK decided not to join the EU’s vaccine purchasing efforts...

[pquinn]

German MEPs talking about vaccine wars, busy threatening export bans while demanding access to other countries' production. And wanting to ignore contracts because they don't like what they mean.

Blind flailing, making everything someone else's fault while looking like idiots.

About what you expect from a crew made up of political failures and an appointee European Commissioner for Health and Food Safety from one of the sttier member states.

[jimmythingy]

I'm trying to find the story but before Christmas the EU were bragging about how they had negotiated a better price for the the vaccine than the UK. So no wonder they took months to agree.

And I'm sure this story does not help relations with the manufacturers

https://www.theguardian.com/world/2020/dec/18/belg...

[CarlosFandango11]

frisbee said:

It isn't as simple as first come first served.

If this company has made a contractual agreement with the EU, or anyone, promising to supply a certain number of doses then it is contractually obliged to deliver them.

Ultimately where the factories are physically located will be the deciding factor.

You forget the date of when the doses would be supplied, and there being a contract with the UK.
Given that the EU contract was agreed relatively early, with massive uncertainty about building a production process, there will be get out clauses for Astra-Zeneca.

[JuanCarlosFandango]

The EU must be livid at being seen to be even more incompetent than Boris Johnson in the first month of our slide into obscure poverty after leaving their club.

[Earthdweller]

You know when a business hits the point when a customer just becomes too much aggro to deal with ?