Dave Plowman wrote:

Tim Streater wrote:

Dave Plowman wrote:

When will you get it into your prejudiced head that there was nothing
to stop any individual EU country ordering vaccine for itself?

That's not what France, Germany, The Netherlands, and possibly another
EU member were told when they formed a consortium last Spring to make a
bulk purchase. The Commission told the countries concerned not to, and
the health ministers of those countries were ordered by their own
goverments to write grovelling letters of apology to the Commission.

Source of your information?

English translation of letter from the "inclusive vaccine alliance"
published in Bild.

https://translate.google.com/translate?sl=de&tl=en&u=https://bild.de/politik/spahn-74734176.bild.html