Let's take a step back: - the EU has a binding contract with Astra Zeneca - the idea is to manufacture vaccine before the EMA decision - one week before the EMA decision AstraZeneca tells everybody that there are only 30% of the agreed doses

Now that is super weird, who would do something like this and communicate something like that in the last moment.

The EU is of course now under intense pressure because people are calling them every day and telling them that they are killing their citizens. I think comparisons between the strategy of the UK and the EU or even better Israel are stupid, of course the UK and Israel are able to be faster...they are smaller. But the total volume of available vaccine limits the possibilities for the EU. If the total volume of the UK would be avalailable for the EU it would be a drop in the bucket. And I really don't get all the "race" reporting, it's highly unlikely that vaccination speed differences between one to 3 months will make any difference in mortality.