Quote (balrog66 @ 24 Mar 2021 13:45)

At this point I want both the EU and the UK contract to be published entirely uncensored. We deserve to know who's screwing us.

Quote (Saucisson6000 @ Mar 24 2021 02:31pm)

AstraZeneka said the 16 million of the doses discovered were destined for Europe, with the remaining 13 earmarked for the Covax (to provide the poorest countries with vaccines.)
Problem: "We are beyond what the pharmaceutical group said it hoped to produce." Brussel source.
I don't think about publishing documents, i think about mandated police search, in situ. It could also be an EU political maneuver... Why not.

Quote (balrog66 @ 24 Mar 2021 13:45)

At this point I want both the EU and the UK contract to be published entirely uncensored. We deserve to know who's screwing us.

Quote (Djunior @ 24 Mar 2021 14:42)

You're mad because of your infinite lockdown. Must be a truly shitty feeling to be holed up in a paris banlieue ^^

Quote (Black XistenZ @ Mar 24 2021 09:52am)

This, but I assume that the EU commission is lying here. If they had really secured fixed delivery quotas with AZ which are legally air tight (and not just wobbly best effort clauses), they would imho have published these contracts months ago. The fact that they didnt imho indicates that the EU fucked it up and signed a contract which lets AZ off the hook.

On the other hand, the way AZ is treating the EU here is an absolute impertinence. They might be legally in the right, but morally and ethically, it's extremely scummy.
Imposing export restrictions now would presumably trigger a trade war and be counterproductive for all sides in the current, precarious situation.

Therefore, my preferred course of action is that the EU sucks it up now, but after covid is under control, AstraZeneca is VIOLENTLY FUCKED TO DEATH!
"Oh, nice new drug you want to get on the EU market. Be a shame if it took the EMA 15 years to approve it."
"Nice plants you got there. Be a shame if they were ""randomly"" selected for surprise inspections every 2 weeks."
"Your European bank accounts got frozen after corruption allegations from 'anonymous sources'. Be a shame if it took years to resolve those charges and unfreeze your accounts."


AstraZeneca is screwing the EU and treating us as if we were some irrelevant little banana republic and not the biggest market in the world. They want to antagonize the EU? Fine, let's make an example out of them showing the rest of the world what happens when a corporation has the audacity to brazenly make an enemy out of the EU! :fume:

Quote (Saucisson6000 @ Mar 24 2021 05:30pm)

Quote (bogie160 @ 24 Mar 2021 17:36)

What are they supposed to do?

If AstraZeneca is correct, they are obligated to supply to the UK first until the UK is served. This sounds like a colossal fuck-up by the EU in terms of procurement.

Quote (dro94 @ Mar 24 2021 07:58pm)

AstraZeneca has a 'best efforts' clause with the EU whereas they have a contract with the UK where they're obliged to deliver as many doses on certain dates as agreed

If it was illegal, AstraZeneca would have given the doses to the EU over the UK in a heartbeat as the larger, more influential state...and if that didn't happen, the EU would taken them to court

The EU heavily weighted their vaccine rollout on AstraZeneca instead of getting 100m+ doses from 3 vaccine providers to diversify their risk

We haven't even talked about the 7m unused doses of AstraZeneca in the EU as a result of European politicians undermining the vaccine. 80% of the French don't trust that vaccine, and over 50% in Germany. So what's the point taking our doses if you aren't going to use them?