November 29, 2020 7:05 pmNovember 29, 2020
“As a businessman, I can decide with whom I sign a contract,” said Christa Schweng in an interview with Spanish news agency Efe.
However, for the president of CESE, an advisory body of the European Union that issues guidelines to Community institutions in representations of entrepreneurs, workers and civil society organizations, the vaccine should not be mandatory.
“The worker can decide if he wants to work or not and in the event that he is required to have the vaccine in order to be able to sign a contract, although one would have to see if a businessman wants only people vaccinated in his company. I don’t know what they will do ”, he said.
Regarding vaccination, Christa Schweng argued that the first to be vaccinated should be health professionals, since they are in close contact with patients and the population at risk.
The CESE president also underlined the importance of the agreement established between the European Commission and pharmaceutical companies to guarantee vaccines for the whole of Europe.
So far, the European Union has signed agreements with Pfizer and BioNTech, AstraZeneca, Sanofi-GSK and Johnson & Johnson, and concluded negotiations with CureVac and Moderna.
Christa Schweng estimated that all vaccines could be approved by the European Medicines Agency by the end of the year.
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