The European Union (EU) is trying to pressure pharmaceutical companies to deliver the doses of coronavirus vaccines that they had committed to providing during the first quarter of the year, said on Sunday (24.01.2021) the President of the European Council, Charles Michel.
Michel said the laboratories will maintain the initial schedule for vaccine deliveries in the European Union starting on January 25, after Brussels intervened to enforce the contracts.
“We are going to ensure that the contracts that have been validated by the pharmaceutical companies are respected and we are committed to transparency using all the legal means at our disposal,” Michel told the French radio station Europe 1.
The President of the European Council insisted that from Brussels they have had to “fight and strike a blow on the table” to ask for clarity on the reasons why delays have been announced and have also asked companies to speak transparently about the reasons for which they have sometimes had difficulties in the production chain.
“When delays have been announced, for example in the case of Pfizer, we have acted firmly, we hit the table and finally the delays of several weeks have been reduced to slowdowns in delivery,” he added.
This same Sunday, the Prime Minister of Italy, Giuseppe Conte, announced that his country will take legal action against the pharmaceutical company Astrazeneca for reducing the batch of coronavirus vaccines, as it has already done with Pfizer and BioNtech for the same reasons. (efe)
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