Greek Prime Minister Kyriakos Mitsotakis participated in the European Council video conference on the European Union’s strategy for dealing with the pandemic late on Thursday, ANA reports.
According to government sources, the prime minister, together with Austria’s Chancellor Sebastian Kurz and Denmark’s Prime Minister Merte Frederiksen, said it was essential to speed up the licensing of vaccines that are in the final stage of evaluation by the European Medicines Agency (EMA) – such as that developed by Oxford University in cooperation with AstraZeneca.
Mitsotakis also noted that Europe must henceforth ensure that it assumes the lead in developments on the licensing front, the sources said, especially with regard to the approval of vaccines that require a single dose or which do not require ultra-cold storage, which could transform the roll-out of national vaccination campaigns.
He pointed out that the three EU leaders’ initiative does not seek to exert political pressure on the EMA but to bypass time-consuming bureaucratic procedures, which delay decisions based on sound scientific criteria.
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