Europe’s vaccine cooperation isn’t federalist dogma

Ursula von der Leyen should carry the blame for the European Commission’s dire performance on vaccines.

This week, Douglas Murray argued that the on-going shambles of the European Union’s vaccination effort should be chalked up to federalist dogma. “There is no logical reason why EU countries could not have been allowed to pursue independent vaccine development, procurement and roll-out,” wrote Murray, except that “it has already been decided that an EU-wide approach is always the only approach.”

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