Merkel Ally Urges Germany to Circumvent EU on Covid Shots
- CSU caucus leader slams Brussels as a ‘big and slow tanker’
- Dobrindt calls for Germany to buy Russian and Chinese vaccines
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A senior member of Angela Merkel’s conservative bloc took a swipe at the chancellor’s vaccine strategy, calling for Germany to purchase shots at the national level because the European Union is too slow.
Merkel has been under fire over delegating purchasing and distribution of Covid-19 vaccines to the EU, which is being blamed for the sluggish rampup. Alexander Dobrindt, the caucus leader for the Bavarian sister party of Merkel’s Christian Democrats, said Germany should get shots from Russia and China to accelerate its inoculation program.