{"id":2747,"date":"2021-01-15T18:09:36","date_gmt":"2021-01-15T18:09:36","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/businessner.com\/?p=2747"},"modified":"2021-01-15T18:09:36","modified_gmt":"2021-01-15T18:09:36","slug":"serious-accusation-made-by-belgian-mep-only-50-minutes-to-read-the-secret-vaccination-contract","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/businessner.com\/serious-accusation-made-by-belgian-mep-only-50-minutes-to-read-the-secret-vaccination-contract\/","title":{"rendered":"Serious Accusation Made by Belgian MEP: “Only 50 Minutes to Read the Secret Vaccination Contract”"},"content":{"rendered":"

On 30 November 2020, the European Commission signed a secret contract for the supply of the Covid vaccine from CureVac, a bio pharmaceutical company specializing in the development of mRNA-based therapies in the Netherlands, but based in T\u00fcbingen, Germany.<\/span><\/p>\n

By signing five agreements for the supply of vaccines, the EU has purchased a total of 2 billion doses to be shared between different Member States.<\/span> The contract signed with CureVac\u00a0 will provide Europe with 225 million doses of vaccine.<\/span><\/p>\n

As Belgian MEP Marc Botenga told the Italian news agency Ag<\/a>i, the first MEPs who were allowed to see the confidential contract to supply the vaccine had “50 minutes to read dozens of pages”<\/strong>.<\/span> A period of time that, he says, “does not allow us to understand the clauses and exceptions.”<\/strong><\/span><\/p>\n

A spokesman for the Belgian Labor Party says he was forced to “leave smartphones and computers outside before entering the room”.<\/strong><\/span> Once there, he had to quickly read the contract and possibly “take notes by hand”.<\/span> The same method was applied, says the MEP, in the case of “TTIP trade agreements with the United States”, certainly this being the “opposite of transparency”<\/em>, Botenga points out.<\/span><\/p>\n

The content of the contract is classified so that MEPs are obliged not to disclose anything.<\/span> In order to see the text, you must sign an NDE. <\/span>Through this procedure, the Belgian MEP accuses, “the Commission has privatized transparency, leaving pharmaceutical companies to decide how contracts can be accessed”.<\/em><\/span> Moreover, the version of the vaccination contract offered to MEPs is not complete, eliminating the most sensitive information.<\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

On 30 November 2020, the European Commission signed a secret contract for the supply of the Covid vaccine from CureVac, a bio pharmaceutical company specializing in the development of mRNA-based therapies in the Netherlands, but based in T\u00fcbingen, Germany. By signing five agreements for the supply of vaccines, the EU has purchased a total of […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":7,"featured_media":2748,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_seopress_robots_primary_cat":"","_seopress_titles_title":"European Commission's Secret Contract for Covid Vaccine Supply Raises Transparency Concerns","_seopress_titles_desc":"","_seopress_robots_index":"","tdm_status":"","tdm_grid_status":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[25,371,859,858],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/businessner.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2747"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/businessner.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/businessner.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/businessner.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/7"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/businessner.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2747"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/businessner.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2747\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2749,"href":"https:\/\/businessner.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2747\/revisions\/2749"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/businessner.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/2748"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/businessner.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2747"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/businessner.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2747"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/businessner.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2747"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}