Brussels responded to Miklós Ómolnár's revealing video from Saturday, in which the director of the tabloid and magazine business of Mediaworks obtained and presented the vaccine contracts concluded by the European Commission. The answer confirms the content of Ómolnár's video, according to which the Brussels board did indeed contract with the vaccine manufacturers.
As is well known, the spokesperson of the European Commission, Stefan De Keersmaecker, said a few days ago that it was not Brussels, but the member states that contracted the vaccine manufacturers. According to his claim, "the Commission played no role in this" .
However, they have now admitted that this is not true. According to the response of the Hungarian Representation of the European Commission, the European Commission has concluded preliminary agreements with six vaccine manufacturers , which have been labeled "sensitive".
According to the Hungarian Representation of the European Commission, these agreements had to be handled sensitively, i.e. confidentially, due to the business interests of the vaccine manufacturers. Based on Brussels' interpretation, contracts can only be made public with the consent of the partners. Three framework contracts (AstraZeneca, CureVac, Sanofi-GSK) can already be known by masking out certain data.
Csaba Dömötör , State Secretary of the Prime Minister's Cabinet Office, described the European Commission's attempt to deny its role in vaccine procurement as unworthy in Kossuth Rádió's Vasárnapi Újság program. "If the contracts were made public by those who otherwise constantly refer to transparency, then this would become clear," he said.
Returning to the basic question: why did the spokesperson of the European Commission lie?
Obviously, he didn't do it on his own, he was ordered to do it. The honor of the uniform had to be protected somehow when the leaders of countless EU countries explained that the Commission was unable to conclude fair contracts , i.e. set penalties, priority delivery and other legally binding conditions in contracts with vaccine manufacturers.
It is becoming increasingly clear that the Brussels bureaucracy is an opaque jungle, where there are few experts and many politicians with mediocre or even less professional knowledge sent there as "gifts" from their home countries.
Normally, this couldn't go on like this. Radical reforms, a smaller and much faster decision-making head would be needed, and it would not be enough in itself even if someone else led the Commission instead of Ursula von der Leyen
