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Ok. Having now read the contract through a couple of times, my initial view that the Commission had no good argument remains the same.
A quick run through the
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The Commission's argument is that the drug is manufactured and eady for distribution, hand it over.
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(I don't have the date, but that accords with other info we have).
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https://t.co/REP32HbZIc
Does the UK contract do that?
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But I don't think AZ have done that.
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AZ is saying "we don't have to deliver those to you."
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There is a scandal here. It is the scandal of the Commission's delay in procuring vaccines for millions of people the 27 Member States. People are dying in their thousands. Now.
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The date on this contract is one example.
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I know nothing about that.
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