EU unhappy with astrazeneca

Bobby Dazzler said:
Or she knows what she is talking about, and the suspicion that the UK is preventing export of vaccines is correct:
EU officials say AstraZeneca has been asked to send some doses manufactured in the UK to the continent to make up the shortfall, but the company said on Wednesday that its contract for UK supplies prevented this.
https://www.bbc.com/news/world-europe-55852698​
This would suggest that
a) UK's contract had a clause to restrict export of UK produced vaccines, and AZ intentionally negotiated a contract with EU, on terms that it could not meet.
b) UK has renegotiated its contract to restrict the export of UK produced vaccine,
c) AZ intentionally negotiated a contract with EU, on terms that it could not meet.
d) AZ is not being honest. Why?
Which is the most likely?
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None of the above, see option e) below. Anyhow as the EU is only going to approve it's use for 18-64 yo's then 40% of the EU population is excluded anyway.
 
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Bobby Dazzler said:
"Well, they would say that, wouldn't they." Mandy Rice-Davies.
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Yes the EU would say that.

https://www.politico.eu/article/the-vaccination-blame-game-is-it-all-the-eus-fault/

" Was Germany held back by the Commission?
Germany helped force the Commission's hand in June by teaming up with France, Italy and the Netherlands to sign a deal for up to 400 million Oxford/AstraZeneca vaccines for all of the EU so the U.S. couldn't snatch them all up.

Other countries, notably Belgium, were critical of the initiative and the Commission stepped in to negotiate for the bloc. The four countries eventually transferred the Oxford/AstraZeneca deal to the Commission.

This is now being reported in German media as the start of the “vaccine disaster.” Bild reported that Spahn apologized for the four-country alliance's stance in a “humiliating tone,” so Commission President Ursula von der Leyen and German Chancellor Angela Merkel could make the “grand gesture” of letting the EU take charge."
 
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trazor said:
Yes the EU would say that.

https://www.politico.eu/article/the-vaccination-blame-game-is-it-all-the-eus-fault/

" Was Germany held back by the Commission?
Germany helped force the Commission's hand in June by teaming up with France, Italy and the Netherlands to sign a deal for up to 400 million Oxford/AstraZeneca vaccines for all of the EU so the U.S. couldn't snatch them all up.

Other countries, notably Belgium, were critical of the initiative and the Commission stepped in to negotiate for the bloc. The four countries eventually transferred the Oxford/AstraZeneca deal to the Commission.

This is now being reported in German media as the start of the “vaccine disaster.” Bild reported that Spahn apologized for the four-country alliance's stance in a “humiliating tone,” so Commission President Ursula von der Leyen and German Chancellor Angela Merkel could make the “grand gesture” of letting the EU take charge."
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It's an opinion article. We're all entitled to an opinion.
 
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