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The view from Brussels: EU vaccine rollout better than Britain’s

Boris Johnson may have just hit his target of 15 million vaccines to the top four priority groups two days early but don’t get ahead of yourself and mistake that for success. Just as ministers begin to pat themselves on the back over a rare government success story in the UK’s vaccination programme, the Grauniad has published an article attempting to offer an explainer as to why things are not as they seem.

While EU Commission president Ursula von der Leyen is under fire from all sides over the bloc’s sluggish vaccine rollout, Jean Quatremer — the Brussels correspondent of the French daily Libération — has penned a piece entitled ‘Brexit Britain’s victory over the EU on Covid vaccination is not what it seems’. 

Quatremer writes that ‘the bloc’s joint vaccines strategy — far from being a fiasco — is delivering a better outcome than the UK’s’. The

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