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.
EU politics
Thomas Fazi – EU trade deal is a capitulation to America
The EU may have signed it’s own death warrant with this deal. In ‘Unherd’. Read the article HERE.
Climate Crisis
Al Jazeera: India’s G20 win hides bitter divisions between the West and Global South
Host India succeeded in getting together a joint Group of 20 declaration, but it hides fractious relationships and bitter divisions among G20 member states. Read HERE
EU politics
Reuters: Italy unions refuse to load Saudi ship in protest over Yemen war
Italian unions refused on Monday to load electricity generators onto a Saudi Arabian ship with weapons on board in a protest against the war in Yemen. Read here
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