So, there are ventilators sitting around useless, because there may be needed "in a week or two" and the EU is not able to organize and coordinate the JIT dirstribution of the equipment across the countries?
So, that being the case, does it really sound like smart governance for a country to ship its ventilators to Italy? Even ignoring the time taken, loss, breakage, and other issues (training? compatability? would Italy have sufficient trained staff to operate them?) what would then happen in a week when the donor countries suddenly needed their ventilators back? Demand that the critially-ill Italians using them are woken up, and the ventilators be shipped back again?
It might sound cruel, but a government's first priority is usually the care of its (own) citizens. And there's almost nowhere in Europe that won't be needing every one of its own ventilators, very soon.
And it's not like you weren't warned about this before:
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=17266468
Flagging both your comments.