Ευρωκίνηση 2/5/2021 The National Herald
ATHENS Prime Minister Kyriakos Mitsotakis said he’s concerned that Germany is going ahead with plans to sell Type 214 class submarines to Turkey which could take away Greece’s biggest advantage in a conflict.
Although his New Democracy party and German Chancellor Angela Merkel’s Christian Democratic Union both belong to the center-right conservative grouping the European People’s party she blocked his request for sanctions against Turkish plans to drill for oil and gas off Greek islands.
That brought Greece and Turkey almost to war three times in 2020, Greece’s Defense Minister Nikos Panagiotopoulos said, but Germany forged ahead with the lucrative submarine sales while simultaneously giving Greece alleged support.
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Scholz is the most senior cabinet member from Germany’s Social Democratic party (SPD), the junior partners in Angela Merkel’s Christian Democratic Union (CDU)-led “grand coalition” for 12 of the past 16 years.
The SPD fiercely opposed the appointment of Von der Leyen, a former defence minister and longtime Merkel ally, as commission chief in 2019, describing her as an “inadequate and inappropriate candidate”.
With federal elections due in September, Merkel and her CDU health minister, Jens Spahn, are coming under increasingly heavy fire over the pace of the vaccine deployment in Germany, where just 3.2% of the population have so far received at least one dose.
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Leaders in Brussels have come under international scrutiny after last week s controversy over coronavirus vaccines. The EU faced off with pharmaceutical company AstraZeneca after it warned it would only be able to deliver a quarter of vaccines originally agreed. The company meanwhile reassured the UK that it would fulfil its contract. Brussels chief von der Leyen then argued it was “crystal clear” that the contract required AstraZeneca to deliver doses produced in the UK to the EU to make up for a shortfall in orders.
EU Bureaucrats Try to Seize UK-Made Vaccines After Covid Failures
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The European Union, which failed to secure early production of coronavirus vaccines, is demanding that UK-made AstraZeneca doses produced for Britons be sent to Europe instead.
Earlier this week, the European Commission threatened to halt the export of vaccines made in Europe produced under a UK contract, after both drugs companies Pfizer and AstraZeneca revealed a delay in delivery to the EU market due to production problems in Belgium.
While Eurocrats sought to blame AstraZeneca and alleged that it was favouring the UK as a customer, the company’s CEO revealed that the UK had a contract in place three months before the bloc, and implied Brussels bureaucracy was to blame for the lack of progress with successful vaccine production.