Nobody embodies the EU’s elite-driven nature better than its incumbent president, Ursula von der Leyen. And no action of hers embodies its warped excesses better than her decision, in April 2021, to single-handedly sign off on a €35-billion deal for the purchase of 1.8 billion doses of the BioNTech/Pfizer vaccine. According to one analysis, the price per dose she agreed was 15 times higher than the cost of production — meaning that the EU overpaid the vaccines by tens of billions of euros.
Climate Crisis
The New Green Deal Group: How to Pay for the Green New Deal: A Briefing
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Environment
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National Politics
Middle East Eye: Refugees in Libya forced to return home or risk torture, UN report finds
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