The European Parliament’s Special Committee on Covid-19 and the Committee on Budgetary Control held a joint meeting on Monday 10 October to discuss the European Court of Auditors’ (ECA) report on vaccine procurement (see EUROPE B13019A11).
Monika Hohlmeier (EPP, German) opened the session, co-chaired with Kathleen Van Brempt (S&D, Belgian), by recalling that the European Commission had had to act at the beginning of the pandemic without being formally given competence. She called for...