EU’s vaccine failure is because it didn’t ‘shoot for the stars,’ Macron says

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European leaders failed to see that COVID-19 vaccines would be developed as soon as they were and this was why rollouts in the EU now lagged behind some other countries, French President Emmanuel Macron said in an interview broadcast on Wednesday.

“Everybody, all the experts said: Never in the history of mankind was a vaccine developed in less than a year,” Macron told Greek television channel ERT.

“We didn’t shoot for the stars. That should be a lesson for all of us. We were wrong to lack ambition, to lack the madness, I would say, to say: It’s possible, let’s do it,” Macron said, in a rare admission of failure in the pandemic.

European Union leaders are struggling to speed up vaccinations, trailing countries like Britain and the United Sattes and facing supply delays.

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  1. For once in his political life, President Macron has exhibited great insight.

    The European Commission – as usual – is only able to shoot Europe ‘in the foot’.

    Yet again, congratulations must be extended to those BUREAUCRATIC IDIOTS in Brussels !

    What, me worry ?

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