Posted by Michael Wonder on 17 Mar 2021
We are in the crisis of the century’: Europe threatens to seize AstraZeneca factories
18 March 2021 - Europe has threatened to seize AstraZeneca factories and strip the pharmaceutical giant of its intellectual property rights in a fresh escalation of the bitter row over coronavirus vaccine exports.
European Commission President Ursula von der Leyen refused to rule out the dramatic interventions on Wednesday, warning “all options are on the table” to boost the number of doses available to the continent’s 450 million citizens.
