Obviously, if we agree to lift the patents, vaccine production is not going to start tomorrow. But we could agree in principle instead of opposing it out of hand.
Media mentions – Vaccines
No one from the political elite really advocated for vaccinations and there was no real public campaign by the Ministry of Health in this direction
The Conference on the Future of Europe should lead to tangible results in redefining the European framework, its institutions and their competences
Marco Saracco’s comment on the possible scenarios after the Conference on the Future of Europe
There was a certain amount of criticism about the fact that it was going to take way more time to approve the Spoutnik V than it took for other vaccines. But that is not true.
Now is the time for rich countries to donate surplus doses of COVID vaccine
Russia has long been implementing strategies to weaken the West, and if the distribution of vaccines can contribute to this, so it is something that the Kremlin can take advantage of
Joanna Hosa and Tara Varma’s article on vaccine diplomacy and Sputnik V republished in Spanish
Ideally vaccines would be apolitical, but they have been politicised from the start, particularly by Russia and not least of all in the name it chose for its vaccine
The vaccine itself can probably be trusted but the politics of it are making things much more complicated
In the minds of many who look at the U.K. and U.S. and Israel, they think we’re doing badly because of European cooperation, and that will have a corrosive impact in other areas.