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The @EU_Commission might have screwed up the communication of the #vaccine roll-out in the past week, but important to keep the big picture in mind. Without the Commission in the lead we would have been in the middle of vaccine wars/nationalism inside the EU. 1/4
The @EU_Commission might have screwed up the communication of the #vaccine roll-out in the past week, but important to keep the big picture in mind. Without the Commission in the lead we would have been in the middle of vaccine wars/nationalism inside the EU. 1/4
Small EU states would have had virtually no negotiating power with the big pharmaceutical companies. Big states would have swept the doses just through mere scale and size. This would have lead to frustration and delayed Europe’s capacity to get out of the pandemic. 2/4
We simply have to realise that this virus does not recognise borders. Therefore all solutions have to follow the same transnational logic. The key is to coordinate the vaccine roll-out, not to fight about the doses on a daily basis. That will lead from bad to worse. 3/4
The Commission will get us out of this mess through data and numbers. In the coming months it will have to prove its negotiating power and distributional capacity. The member states must understand that playing a national card in this situation is a race to the bottom. 4/4 #Covid
