Laurent Pinsolle has been running
the free Gaullist blog
since 2007.
Thursday and Friday, the summit of EU heads of state was largely devoted to health strategy, following which Emmanuel Macron held a press conference to report on the exchanges.
The opportunity to see once again the incredible denial of the EU vaccine fiasco and the frightening perseverance in wanting to entrust the EU with new subjects, despite its obvious failure.
Today Britain has administered nearly 20 million vaccines, the equivalent of 28.6% of its population.
The United States is at 68 million, or 20.4%.
The EU has painfully reached the 30 million doses administered, the equivalent of 6.8% of its population, 3 times less than on the other side of the Atlantic and more than 4 times less than on the other side of the Channel!
The results, two months after the launch of the vaccination campaign in all EU countries is disastrous.
While the benefits of a rapid vaccination campaign are emerging more and more clearly across the Channel, where Boris Johnson presented a deconfinement plan that will start in early March in the face of the rapid fall in cases and deaths, or in Israel, a world record, with the administration of a number of doses equivalent to 91% of the population, the EU countries remain under pressure and France is rather tightening the constraints.
The results, two months after the launch of the vaccination campaign in all EU countries is disastrous
Laurent Pinsolle
Indeed, the Commission was very slow to place the orders, pushing the boss of Moderna to alert him in November of his delay, while other countries had acted months before.
It was however crucial because the preparation of a specific production line can only be finalized with firm orders.
In addition, it also seems that it prioritized the price level, a short-sighted reasoning when we know the cost to the economy of containments and other restrictions imposed by the fact that the population is not protected.
In short, while the campaign has now been launched for two months, it would not have been pointless to hear a mea culpa from European leaders.
Turning a blind eye to reality, Macron finds a way to continue defending the European approach, "the
only way to organize an effective vaccination campaign in Europe, (which) is bearing fruit, leaving in dispersed order would have been useless
".
Boris Johnson's Great Britain, on the contrary, shows that leaving alone has allowed London a much faster and more effective campaign, which will allow the country to emerge from the constraints well before its former colleagues in the EU.
And to top it off, the French president has found a way to thank the commission for its work!
Is there not a better example of the autism of these European leaders who publicly self-congratulate themselves even as the citizens of the European Union see every day that they have failed?
Is there not a better example of the autism of these European leaders who publicly self-congratulate themselves even as the citizens of the European Union see every day that they have failed?
Laurent Pinsolle
In addition, the initiatives announced, the export control mechanism, or the supply of medical equipment, are absolutely not credible.
First, the commission failed to supply the EU countries on time with vaccines, which we will pay cash in the coming months compared to Great Britain and the United States.
Then, these initiatives are only postures intended to give pledges to a public opinion terrified to learn that such a proportion of medical devices are manufactured outside Europe, to the point of having inflated China's trade surplus. in 2020, as reported by Le
Figaro
.
Moreover, questioned by a journalist from
Le Monde
, Macron clearly emphasized that he does not wish to "
fragment world production
" and is "
not in favor of vaccine nationalism
".
Free trade will not be called into question.
It is quite astonishing to note to what extent, faced with the impasse of their choices and their models, the European leaders, and Macron the first, close their eyes on the worst fiascos.
Initiatives on the supply of medical supplies are nothing but harmless postures.
This will not be without consequences for the opinion of citizens towards the EU, which Brexit is increasingly shedding light on.