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Stuttgart (dpa / lsw) - The Baden-Württemberg Prime Minister Winfried Kretschmann (Greens) has sharply rejected criticism of the vaccination policy.
"These clever debates afterwards don't get a single dose of vaccine," he said after the "vaccination summit" of the federal and state governments at an event on European policy on Monday evening in Stuttgart.
Now you have to manage the shortage, but the know-it-all is of no use.
The bottlenecks are in production and not in any contracts, he said with a view to criticism of the EU.
"The companies are working absolutely on the edge."
Nothing could have fixed that.
One would still have problems in the first quarter of the year, which would resolve in the second quarter, in the third quarter the availability of the vaccine would no longer be the limiting factor.
Former EU Commission President Jean-Claude Juncker also defended the European Union's vaccination policy at the evening event.
It is right that the EU take care of the procurement of the vaccine.
Juncker admitted that everything went too slowly and was not designed to be as transparent as possible.
But if each nation state had taken care of the procurement of the vaccine on its own, poorer and smaller countries would no longer have access to the markets.
Chancellor Angela Merkel (CDU) and the prime ministers of the federal states had discussed the status of the vaccinations by video conference on Monday.
In view of scarce quantities, sometimes unsafe deliveries and the often overloaded telephone hotlines for vaccination appointments, massive criticism has built up.
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