Draghi Calls for EU Action Over Vaccine Delays: Summit Update

Italian Prime Minister Mario Draghi urged European Union leaders to use the bloc’s new powers to ensure the supply of vaccines during a video conference on Thursday.

The EU leaders were assessing the severity of the continent’s health situation and a controversial new proposal that will allow the EU to block vaccine exports from pharmaceutical companies that haven’t met their commitments to the bloc. The new rules, unveiled Wednesday, would also stop shipments to countries that don’t send full doses or ingredients back to the EU or that have better health situations or vaccination rates.