I wonder what all the EU citizens think who are not getting vaccinated because the EU thought it would play hard ball with the drug companies, who basically went elsewhere as they don't care about EU bureaucratic games?
Equally, any EU member state could have chosen to go their own way. The EU didn't force them to collectively bargain to (successfully) get better value deals.
Maybe the EU will do a worse job distributing, but it's too early to say.
(As a Brit, I'm pleasantly surprised how smoothly our vaccine roll out is going so far!)
You think it's an anomaly that EU countries are below UK and the US (despite the publicised failure of the Trump regime to plan for this)?
[1] https://www.politico.eu/article/angela-merkel-defends-joint-...
What do you mean? Current vaccination plan is 80% of population by summer, isn't it?
For all the many times the UK dropped the ball over this pandemic (and separately over Brexit), the British health systems — both NHS and private — are actually good at vaccinating people. For example, last time I visited friends in the country, I got a seasonal flu vaccine from a supermarket without an appointment.