On Monday 30 March, the European Commission qualified the figures provided by Maroš Šefčovič, Vice-President for Inter-Institutional Relations, during the plenary debate on the coronavirus health crisis. “They were just samples from the companies that were interviewed a few weeks before”, said Sonya Gospodinova, a spokeswoman for the institution.
In his speech to the European Parliament on 26 March, Maroš Šefčovič indicated that Europe would need 200 million masks, 30 million...