to be honest it's less about the EU being good-natured and more about them being bureaucratic. They didn't move fast enough to secure the contract and then dist

to be honest it's less about the EU being good-natured and more about them being bureaucratic. They didn't move fast enough to secure the contract and then distribute the vaccine quickly. That's 100% on them, but now that they're embarrassed they're trying to make the vaccine look like it was a bad thing anyway. That, and threatening to use protectionism to deny AZ the right to fulfil its contracts. It's very petulant, in the same way if you deny something to a child they could throw a strop and say "well I didn't want it anyway".