The European Commission has announced that legal action was launched Friday by the member states by mutual agreement against the Swedish-British pharmaceutical group, AstraZeneca.

The Union accuses him of not having kept its commitments on the deliveries of vaccines against the coronavirus. 

The EU has launched legal action against the Swedish-British laboratory AstraZeneca, which it accuses of not having kept its commitments on deliveries of its anti-Covid vaccine, the European Commission announced on Monday.

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"The terms of the contract were not respected and the company was not in a position to implement a reliable strategy to ensure on-time deliveries," said a spokesperson for the company. European executive, specifying that this action had been launched Friday on behalf of the EU and the 27, "unanimously in agreement" with this decision.

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