📢VACCINE ROLLOUT ISSUES: @EU_Commission is seriously annoyed with AstraZeneca over plans to deliver 60% less vaccine doses than it agreed to in contract signed last fall: “We have serious questions, and we expect them to be answered on Monday,” one EU official said. 1/4 2/4 Health Commissioner @SKyriakidesEU posted a letter to AstraZeneca with these questions and more, officials told me. Setting a deadline today shows about the degree of anger. The company is expected at a meeting of the EU plus EU countries steering group on the matter.

Germany purchased extra 30 million doses of the BioNTech/Pfizer vaccine, outside the EU’s joint buying program. There's no way around it: Berlin violates an EU agreement to not negotiate in parallel with vaccine manufacturers. 1/4 Commission President @vonderleyen said it herself, if stopping short of naming her home country: "It's legally binding. We have all agreed, legally binding, that there will be no parallel negotiations, no parallel contracts.” 2/4 politico.eu/article/german…

#Juncker announces extra summit on #Brexit extension next week: "I assume that we will not be able to reach a decision this week [at #EUCO] but that we will have to meet again next week," @JunckerEU told @DLF just now. Asked what #May needs to "have in her bag" when she goes to Brussels to ask for #Brexit extra time, #Juncker told @DLF that "approval of the negotiated [Withdrawal] Agreement" is precondition for extension.

Aua, das tut weh: #Seehofers Demontage durch die Vertretung der Bundesregierung in Brüssel passt in einen Thread. 1/6 Seehofer versprach Großbritannien einen speziellen Deal in der Sicherheitspolitik post-#Brexit. Den wird es nicht geben — schrieb @GermanyintheEU an die @EU_Commission. Der kurze Brief im Wortlaut: 2/6