LE FIGARO.
- European countries have taken an undeniable delay in vaccination.
Can we accuse the European Union of having failed?
Jean-Louis BOURLANGES.
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It is clear that the management of the vaccine purchasing center by the European Commission is far from being optimal.
She was too careful, therefore too slow;
the priority on price moderation rather than urgency was not the right one;
its technical negotiations with the labs lacked rigor: it was, for example, absurd to buy vials but pay doses, and thus increase prices each time we managed to extract from a vial more than doses than expected.
These dysfunctions are far from negligible: the lost time is never found even if the delays are made up for.
The hour of reckoning will be at the end of the summer.
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What strikes me, however, without surprising me, is the hysterized nature of the questioning of the Union, with its two traditional figures that are the ascent
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