[Newsweek] The EU Has Nobody to Blame But Itself for Its Vaccine Debacle

There are lessons to be learned from the EU’s life-costing policy failures. The bloc won’t learn them.

President of the European Commission, Ursula von der Leyen is talking to media at the end of a video conference meeting of the members of the European Council focused on the Covid-19 pandemic in the Justus Lipsius building, the EU Council headquarter, on January 21, 2021, in Brussels, Belgium.

When European Commission president Ursula von der Leyen persuaded EU heads of state in June to hand her department omnicompetence to procure vaccines for the bloc’s 450 million residents, the victory lap she probably envisioned was of EU flags stamped on pallet loads of vaccines delivered from Lisbon to Warsaw. The actual result has been rather different.

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