EU's ties to Big Pharma holding up vaccine distribution

There's a lot of good analysis of the whole situation in this Daily Poster report. But for me the bottom line is this:

"As a recent report from the Corporate Europe Observatory highlighted, the European Commission has overwhelmingly prioritized talks with industry contacts over civil society groups when it comes to vaccines. From the beginning of the pandemic in March 2020 to early May 2021, EU commissioners with a direct stake in medicine and vaccines met 140 times with pharmaceutical companies and just once with a group that supports a patent waiver, according to the watchdog group."