Thanks Goodness We Are Liberated

[merchant_banker]

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Britain outside the EU was able to operate as a “speedboat” in securing coronavirus vaccines, the European commission president admitted today.
In an acknowledgment of Europe’s slow pace of vaccine rollout, Ursula von der Leyen said that operating on its own allowed the UK to move more nimbly to secure supplies.

But she said the delays in signing contracts was a price worth paying to ensure that all 27 EU member states received equal supplies of the vaccine at the same time.

“Alone, a country can be a speedboat, while the EU is more like a ship,” von der Leyen told a group of European newspapers.

“Before concluding a contract . . . the 27 member states had five full days to say whether they agreed or not. This naturally delays the process.”
But she added: “I can’t even imagine what it would have meant for Europe, in terms of unity, if one or more member states had access to vaccines and not the others

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[PolemIan]

Why does is seem that the bureaucratic system operated by the EU is so similar to that of the Vogons " Douglas Adams " ?

But is their poetry at the same level?

[Dominic]

What's with the "we" anyway?

This forum is based in Paphos, Cyprus, and runs on servers in Germany. Some of the users may well be British, but by no means everybody.