Ylva Johansson, EU Commissioner with responsibility for home affairs, was asked on Wednesday in the SVT program "30 minutes".
Among other things, she was asked about the pace of vaccination in the EU.
Both the United Kingdom and the United States have vaccinated around half of the adult population.
The corresponding share in the EU is 18 percent.
Ylva Johansson was asked why the EU is so far behind.
- You will soon catch up with that, you will see.
I think it's a little too early to draw those conclusions, now more vaccines are coming, she said.
She also points out that the UK, unlike the EU, has emergency-approved vaccines, and that vaccine manufacturers have not delivered according to plan.
- Had we had the vaccine deliveries that were agreed, it would have looked different.
Do not believe in export bans
Ylva Johansson is disappointed that the USA and the UK have limited their vaccine exports.
- I do not think it is good to impose such type of export restrictions.
At the same time, she believes that the EU should also be able to restrict exports, and gives Astra Zeneca a boot.
- I think you should have the opportunity, especially against a company that has so fatally failed to deliver what it has agreed to EU member states.
She believes that the EU would have gone further if the British Astra Zeneca factories had been allowed to supply vaccines to the Union.
- Who is the biggest villain here, whether it is the company or the UK, can be disputed.
But it's not good.