While it refuses to talk about “failures”, the European Court of Auditors highlights, in a report published on Monday 18 January, a series of “difficulties” that arose at European level during the Covid-19 crisis in the first half of 2020, including the use of joint procurement framework contracts and the lack of resources from the European Centre for Disease Prevention and Control (ECDC).
However, the EU institution stresses that it is too early to draw conclusions and make...