I think they are heavily dependent on the Pfizer vaccine to start with, production of which is delayed slightly as they reconfigure manufacturing to ramp up capacity. The EU says that they've been let down by the supplier. BioNtech say that the orders were not scheduled to be delivered yet... the Eu has placed orders with 7 suppliers in total, but not far as I know, the AZ onne, So only Pfizer and Moderna are licensed at the moment. Whether the lack of orders for the AZ one is based on science, hubris or simply not getting orders in early enough I don’t know.
Based on very limited data points from my friends on the mainland, I don’t think it’s a widespread political crisis. The Dutch are rightly livid (they started vaccinating a month after we did) but the Germans seem broadly ok with the vaccination programme, though of of course they’ve bucked the system! The major noise and unrest seems to be from the countries at the fringes of the EU, and I don’t suppose France or Germany will concern themselves too much with that
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