Two strong women, Angela Merkel and Ursula von der Leyen, in their wish to strengthen the European Union and establish it as a successful and robust All-European body, have achieved the exact opposite.
Merkel wanted the procurement of Covid vaccine to be a European project. However, neither von der Leyen, who was preoccupied with Brexit throughout the year, nor anyone else in the gigantic EU bureaucracy has any experience whatsoever in large-scale procurement. Invariable, they were just chickenfeed for the tough negotiators of the Pharma industry. Moreover, the 27 countries were not in agreement as regards to the different vaccines, price, technology and liability, thereby slowing negotiations down. The result is FAILURE. Big time failure. Death causing failure.
Merkel should not have pushed for it and von der Leyen should not have accepted it. Lessons must be learned. Before it is too late. Otherwise, Britain will not be the last country to leave the EU.
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