> Noone is even trying to make decisions for Europe...
Of course people are. The EU commission works on it, countries talk to each other. Is there a fully coordinated EU response yet? No. Is there cooperation? Yes.
Well our female president Von Der Leyen snatched up a 80mill grant for cureVac in order to avoid Trump luring them to move and secure the covid-19 vaccine for US only.
One such “conflicting report” is CureVac themselves[0]:
> To make it clear again on coronavirus: CureVac has not received from the US government or related entities an offer before, during and since the Task Force meeting in the White House on March 2. CureVac rejects all allegations from press.
Oh sure, the original articles have been updated, but still the myth remains. Funny how that works.
Yes, that is what I was hinting at. Of course they could lie in the interest of a possible business relationship, but I see no evidence of this. I wonder how the rumor started.
The majority owner of the company said it is the case and the German government said they are discussing counter measures. This tweet is damage control and tries to use a bit of weasel wording to make it look better: There never was a formal offer, so we can just ignore informal talks, right?
Maybe. Perhaps it is a PR-move to bring the company into the spotlight. Perhaps it was Trump wanting to be seen as capable. Perhaps we will never know.
Of course people are. The EU commission works on it, countries talk to each other. Is there a fully coordinated EU response yet? No. Is there cooperation? Yes.