BRUSSELS -
"More than half of all adults in the EU are now fully vaccinated!"
and "sufficient doses have been delivered to vaccinate 70% of adults in the EU"
.
The president of the EU Commission,
Ursula von der Leyen
writes on Twitter
, stressing that "to protect yourself from variants and avoid a new wave of infections, it is important to get vaccinated".
"Vaccination campaigns are national competences, so whether or not they are mandatory is a decision up to the Member States." Thus a spokesman for the European Commission
to journalists who asked whether the EU executive had a position on the mandatory nature of the vaccine. "Having said that, we have always said that it is important to continue vaccinating citizens" against Covid-19 "as it is the way out of the pandemic, especially for the most vulnerable." We think the goal is to get vaccinated. 70% of adults can be reached ", he later specified.