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The EU Commission has rejected a complaint from Austria and five other member states about the unjust distribution of vaccines.
Austria, the Czech Republic, Bulgaria, Slovenia, Croatia and Latvia complained in a letter to Commission head Ursula von der Leyen and EU Council President Charles Michel that the deliveries to the member states did not correspond to their proportion of the population and called for a "European solution".
A representative of the EU Commission stated that the vaccines were actually allocated according to the population.
However, states could use this flexibly and leave a larger share to other, particularly affected countries.
It is up to the member states to agree on a return to the original distribution key.
The German government had already made a similar statement on Friday after the Austrian Chancellor Sebastian Kurz sharply criticized the vaccine distribution in the EU.
Kurz said that he and other heads of government had surprisingly found that the deliveries were not made according to the population key.
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The German federal government responded by a spokesman that this key could be deviated from if member states did not completely purchase the quantities to which it was entitled.
In Austria, the opposition Social Democrats criticized that the conservative Kurz wanted to use his criticism to distract attention from his own mistakes in the vaccination campaign.
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