Among other voices critical of the incompetent EU Commission approach on the COVID vaccination campaign, Larry Elliott of the U.K. Guardian hints that the exit from the EU which enabled the U.K. to be much faster with vaccinations than continental Europe with its notoriously slow bureaucracy, may become popular there, as discontent with the EU Commission keeps rising. Getting fed up with the Commission, Hungary has already ordered Russia’s Sputnik V vaccine.
And even in Germany, which is facing several regional and national elections this year, the trust in the “unified European Way” pursued by European Commission President Ursula von der Leyen is crumbling. Elliott described: “That said, people in Germany might like to ask a couple of simple questions: Would we rather have health policy run by our own government or by the people in Brussels? And would we rather have life or death decisions taken by people we can vote out of power or by an unelected body, where nobody ever has to take responsibility for even the most colossal and humiliating of failures?”
