EU-UK tensions grow over COVID-19 vaccine
Jerome Hughes
Press TV, Brussels
The fallout from the British Government's decision to begin mass COVID-19 vaccination next week continues. The EU is certainly not happy about the move and comments made by a government minister on London's LBC radio have only fueled the flames.
The head of the European Commission's media service has been responding. The British education secretary's remarks haven't gone down well either with members of the public we have been speaking to in Brussels.
The EU's regulator for vaccines is the European Medicines Agency. It wanted the UK to wait for its approval given that Britain is still bound by the Brexit transition period.
Authorities in Berlin are pointing out, the vaccine that will be rolled out in the UK was developed by German firm BioNTech using EU research funding, and is being produced in Belgium.
Citizens we have been talking to believe the British Government is trying to make up for its disastrous handling of the pandemic.
EU Health Commissioner, Stella Kyriakides, says the delay in approving the Pfizer BioNTech vaccine is about winning the public's trust so that they actually take the jab.
The European Medicines Agency says it will make a decision on the authorization of the Pfizer vaccine by the 29th of December at the latest. But is this bolstering the EU's credibility, in the eyes of citizens, or eroding it.
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