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EU coordination is the main way to organize vaccines in Sweden, but there is no obstacle to looking outside, according to Prime Minister Stefan Löfven (S).
Prime Minister Stefan Löfven (S).
– Our vaccine coordinator has the mission to look beyond this, what is there? But it’s just that there is no stock on the shelf and waiting, everyone is asking for vaccines, Löfven said when giving a report to the Riksdag on last week’s EU summit in Brussels.
It was a meeting in which a lot of time was spent discussing delays in vaccine deliveries and the prudent or recklessness of EU countries coordinating orders and appearing to have lagged behind in vaccination rates. Löfven said he lobbied during the meeting, and in a separate meeting yesterday with European Commission President Ursula von det Leyen, that the Commission should lie to companies about faster deliveries and increased production.
But the EU’s path was the right one, Löfven said.
– If we had not been part of this coordination, we would not have been close to starting vaccinating now, said Löfven in a response with, among others, Ludvig Aspling (SD).
In the Riksdag on Thursday, the moderates will present an initiative in the Social Affairs Committee on the purchase of vaccines outside the EU coordination. He asks the government to “immediately investigate the possibilities of Sweden buying vaccines on its own.”
According to information from TV4, it is expected that there will be a majority in the Riksdag to give the government such an announcement.
