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EU ambassadors meet to solve the issue of sharing 10m doses

Austria, Slovenia, and the Czech Republic continue to oppose

01 April, 13:39
(ANSA) - BRUSSELS, 01 APR - The EU ambassadors meet again at the Coreper this morning to solve the issue of sharing 10 million doses of BionTech-Pfizer moved up to the second quarter, taken from a batch of 100 million (in the fourth quarter).

The diplomatic meetings have been going on since Tuesday.

Austria, Slovenia, and the Czech Republic continue to oppose.

And even if the solution proposed by the Portuguese presidency of the EU Council yesterday received a significant majority vote, unanimity is required to make a decision, according to Brussels.

The mediation initiative foresees the distribution of seven million serums according to the pro-rata criterion, i.e., based on the number of inhabitants. In contrast, Bulgaria, Croatia, Estonia, Latvia, Slovakia, and the Czech Republic should share the remaining three million doses, following a solidarity scheme.

The six countries are facing difficulties with vaccine campaigns. Austria and Slovenia do not belong to the group.

In recent weeks, Vienna had taken the lead in a coalition of countries to ask for a 'solidarity' correction in the distribution of doses. But at the leaders' summit had emerged the will not to grant anything to the government led by Sebastian Kurz. (ANSA).

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