Covid-19: on vaccines, Europe "is a bit of a diesel", recognizes Macron on Greek TV

is a bit of a diesel

starts slowly

goes far

We are catching up.

We're a bit of a diesel.

We can no longer talk too much in these days about these engines, but it starts slowly and it goes a long way,

has ordered 2.5 billion doses, so plenty to do for us, for solidarity, to plan for the future."

By the second half of the year, we will be the space that will produce the most vaccines in the world,

thought it would go so quickly

The Americans had a merit in the summer of 2020, they said:

let's go all out and let's go”.

And so they have more (vaccines).

They had more ambition than us.

And whatever it costs that we applied for the accompanying measures, they applied it for vaccines and research

We weren't quick enough, not strong enough on this.

This is quite true and we thought that the vaccine would take time to take off (...) And so, we probably dreamed less of the stars than some others.

And I think that must be a lesson for ourselves.

We were wrong to lack ambition, I was going to say madness, to say:

it is possible and we are going".

We are perhaps too rational

having a real European vaccination

clear rules so that within the European area we can reopen

the attachment to freedom and to the European adventure

proposals

in the second half of the year with a view to of the French Presidency