EU citizens started receiving vaccines at the very end of last year, in a process that will last many months (Photo: European Commission)

Vaccines in focus in the EU This WEEK

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by Eszter Zalan, Brussels,

Vaccines remain the number one topic for the continent in the new year after nine months of Covid-19 deaths, lockdowns, and economic hardship.

EU Commission president Ursula von der Leyen last Friday (8 January) said that the EU executive had secured a further 300 million doses from the Pfizer/BioNTech jab.

But the commission refused to answer questions on whether Germany secured an extra 30m doses outside of the EU contrac...

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Eszter Zalan is a Hungarian journalist who worked for Brussels-based news portal EUobserver specialising in European politics, focusing on populism and Brexit.

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