EU Bureaucrats experience the real world.

The likelihood of a massive fiasco is increasing... https://twitter.com/SKyriakidesEU/status/1352701615933947905

1: The Pfizer/BioNTech "clash" that resulted in less.
2: The assessment that a rather inexperienced vaccine player, AZN, would manage to handle eg. scaling issues
3: Cheaper is not always better (focus on price often results in bad decisions?)
4: slow internal process

AZN will get sued (by Italy
/EU?)?

The EU APA and the associated communication seems to have been catastrophically handled by $AZN e.a.

"Either the advance production hasn’t happened, or vaccines have been produced but sold to someone else that perhaps agreed to pay more" https://www.politico.eu/newsletter/brussels-playbook/politico-brussels-playbook-vaccine-delay-turkeys-charm-offensive-portuguese-reelection/amp/?__twitter_impression=true

Oops, another blow for $AZN (if true)

Vaccine only 8% effective for >65years

Is this another "emmission scandal" (think VW) entering the stage? https://twitter.com/washingtonski/status/1353788589839151104?s=19

That the EU is choosing to display their dissatisfaction out in the open (to show its financers i.e. its citizens) could bite back.

Why is there a conflict in the first place? Who has parked himself so that he is vulnerable to unnecessary risks?

The EU. https://ec.europa.eu/commission/presscorner/detail/en/speech_21_211

Good thread about incompetence (foremost the EU)

Also peculiar that AZN "discovers problems" (whatever that might be?) at such a late stage? Is the August EU implementation so different from the UK one in May? https://twitter.com/Peston/status/1354019140084916225?s=20