The Telegraph published this video item, entitled “EU risked disintegrating in face of coronavirus threat, says Ursula von der Leyen” – below is their description.
The EU would have crumbled under the pressure of the coronavirus pandemic if it had not bought vaccines as a collective bloc, the president of the European Commission said
Ursula von der Leyen defended her under-fire vaccination strategy, which has been hit by supply delays and lags far behind the rollout of jabs in Britain, Israel and the US.
She said that the EU strategy of negotiating as a bloc had ensured that smaller member states had access to the jabs and at cheaper prices –
read more here: https://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/2021/02/10/eu-risked-disintegrating-face-coronavirus-threat-says-ursula/
Without the collective bargaining, she claimed, the EU would have collapsed amid infighting and resentment.
“I cannot even imagine what would have happened if just a handful of big players, big member states had rushed to it and everybody else would have been left empty handed,” she told the European Parliament.
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