The European Commission is getting ready to launch legal proceedings against vaccine producer AstraZeneca, Politico reported while citing five unnamed European Union diplomats.
The Commission raised the matter at a meeting of EU ambassadors Wednesday, April 21, 2021 during which the majority of EU countries said they would support suing the company over complaints that it massively under-delivered pledged coronavirus vaccine doses to the bloc.
However, five to six countries, including large states like Germany and France, raised concerns about launching a lawsuit against AstraZeneca, according to several diplomats. One of the concerns, as one diplomat explained, is that a lawsuit wouldn't guarantee that the EU got more doses.
Additionally, the company has projected that it'll deliver roughly 70 million doses by the end of the second quarter of this year, when it was supposed to have delivered the entire 300 million doses secured in the EU contract.
