EU vaccine rollout severely lags behind
This:<p>The EU should start to <i>invoke the Doha Declaration</i>[1] (patent release), and use it in full, if necessary. 
This would pressure AstraZeneca to fulfill the contracts they signed and already got payed for.<p>It is irrelevant that other customers signed first &#x2F; paid more &#x2F; whatever.
They signed a contract, and they did not deliver - there <i>must</i> be consequences.
(not childish, passive-aggressive, vaccine clot-danger rumors&#x2F;whining)<p>If they cannot deliver their production commitments, then the EU should open the patents and procure the production elsewhere, in AZ&#x27;s place.
(for example, Bayer&#x27;s vaccine production capacity is unused)<p>The US did it - the nice way - with J&amp;J and Merck.<p>EU bureaucrats need to adult-up, 
(and put aside neoliberal dogma &#x2F; possible private sector careers) 
and act proactively for Citizen&#x27;s (health and economic) needs.
The more days people are without vaccination, the more will <i>needlessly die</i>. And further will the economy &#x2F; livelihoods plummet.<p>I also see no problem that the EU continues production beyond its own direct requirements, and supplies those in the World that need vaccines and cannot afford them.<p>[1] <a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;en.wikipedia.org&#x2F;wiki&#x2F;Doha_Declaration" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;en.wikipedia.org&#x2F;wiki&#x2F;Doha_Declaration</a>