If today’s edition of The Times is correct then the EU chose to negotiate hard on price and assuring that the pharma companies accepted liability for any issues caused by the vaccine. Whereas many countries negotiated on the basis of guaranteed supply and were willing not to insist on liability being assumed. If true that’s a monumental failure in terms of understanding the scale of the problem and what they needed from the negotiation versus what they wanted... Though of course if these vaccines do have long term effects that no no one foresaw then their approach will be proved to be right :)
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