The demand stems from a row between Brussels and AstraZeneca over a shortfall of tens of millions of vaccine doses. — Reuters picBRUSSELS, May 11 — The EU executive is suing British-Swedish pharmaceutical group AstraZeneca to force it to deliver 90 million more doses of its Covid-19 vaccine before July, a spokesman said today.
The commission has launched two emergency legal actions against the company in a Belgian court, first to have the urgency of the issue recognised, and then to have a judge rule on whether the EU’s case is well-founded. Instead of 120 million doses originally promised for the first three months of this year, it delivered 30 million. For the second quarter, when it was to have supplied 180 million doses, it vowed it would instead deliver 70 million.
He said the Commission would only lay its arguments out in the court room, not in a media conference, but added: “We are convinced that we have a very sound argument in demanding what we’re demanding before the courts.”
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