It is a new lone rider and another crack in the common European vaccine strategy.
Austria and Denmark will join forces with Israel for the development and production of new generation vaccines.
A common fund will be created for this purpose, Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu announced Thursday.
"I am very happy,"
said Austrian Chancellor Sebastian Kurz.
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That Austria and Denmark play their own score is hardly a surprise in Brussels.
The Chancellor and Danish Prime Minister Mette Frederiksen have been impatient with delivery delays for months.
At the end of January, during one of the monthly video conferences of the Twenty-Seven devoted to the pandemic, the Danish Prime Minister was concerned.
"People are dying because we are not delivered,"
she said, without knowing that AstraZeneca would announce the next morning a new and very significant delay.
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