Now all of the sudden agreements with UK and US are fulfilled and with EU are not.
Countries are currently outbidding each other and stealing the supplies. It was naive of EU bureaucracy to think that the cheapest price is the priority.
"The Oxford-AstraZeneca vaccine is much cheaper, although neither the UK nor the US can match the EU’s $2.15 deal: they are expecting to pay about $3 and $4, respectively, per dose."
I am a C++ developer and I did some Java programming and C# programming. From my little experience both Java and C# look the same too me, I consider them like a different dialects of the same language.
When you step into their ecosystems, you notice the huge difference. Frameworks, build systems, CI systems, the way documentation is structured. Even the language that developers use to describe the same programming concepts is different.
Putting a name of the language in the ad is just a sign of the culture you will be expected to integrate into.
EU used its negotiating power to drive the price of covid vaccine down, and now producers are ignoring "low profit" EU contracts and selling vaccines to highest bidder.
Later, UK and US agreed to buy AZ vaccine and are paying 3$ and 4$.
https://www.bmj.com/content/372/bmj.n281
Now all of the sudden agreements with UK and US are fulfilled and with EU are not.
Countries are currently outbidding each other and stealing the supplies. It was naive of EU bureaucracy to think that the cheapest price is the priority.