GMF Senior Fellow Jacob Kirkegaard joined the BBC World News segment “Coronavirus: EU vaccine row” to discuss the ongoing issues around the EU’s vaccination policy. Topics discussed include who’s to blame for the lack of vaccines and how the EU places itself in this difficult position. Kirkegaard noted that “Incrementing vaccine nationalism right now will be undercutting its own states of policy goals.” This is the case because it’s “a global issue (…), it doesn’t make any sense to have some parts of the world not being vaccinated over the next couple of years, because otherwise the virus is just going to come back in a mutated version that may not respond.” He also said that “having a big public fight with a company isn’t gonna deliver any additional vaccines to the EU in the coming weeks.” Instead, he would rather recommend that “the various EU governments actually made sure that they injected all the vaccines that they have already received” as there are quite a lot of difference among the various member states.