It's intriguing that Germany/ the EU are objecting strongly to the UK's supply of AZ vaccines being far greater than the EU's (and using this to "justify" cutting off the UK's supply of Pfizer), and at the same time saying that the AZ data is suspect. Clearly they are thrashing around, trying to make as much noise as possible, to distract from their abject failure in vaccine procurement. In both Macron's and Merkel's minds, as they hang on tenuously to their grip on power and with their legacies looking in ruins, it's the equivalent of dropping a dead cat in the middle of the conference table.

It's sad to see that operating a high tech plant in Germany is becoming similar to operating one in a banana republic.