As the European Parliament’s Committee on Budgetary Control (CONT) met with Sandra Gallina, the European Commission’s Director General for Health and Food Safety, on Friday 1 October, several MEPs raised the issue of the opacity of the European procurement process for Covid-19 vaccines.
There were renewed calls for information on the amounts disbursed by the Commission under Advance Purchase Agreements (APAs) with pharmaceutical companies and whether the Commission would consider...