The day after the announcement of US President Joe Biden, Emmanuel Macron, hitherto reluctant, said on Thursday, "completely in favor of intellectual property being lifted" on anti-Covid vaccines.

"Yes, we obviously have to make this vaccine a global public good," added the Head of State, inaugurating the first major vaccine park in Paris, while stressing that the short-term priority was "the donation of doses" and " to produce in partnership with the poorest countries ”.

"If there has been vaccine nationalism, we must not look to Europe"

On April 23, he said he was opposed to the immediate lifting of intellectual property, explaining that the subject was not that but that of technology transfer. "What I said simply, which is a reality, is that today you have a bottleneck, which makes it difficult to access the vaccine," he said on Thursday. , while the EU also said it was "ready to discuss" a lifting of patents on anti-Covid vaccines.

“You can transfer intellectual property to pharmaceutical manufacturers in Africa, they don't have a platform to produce messenger RNA.

Our subject is to transfer technology and know-how so that there are platforms that produce messenger RNA vaccines in Africa, that is the key, ”continued Emmanuel Macron.

"If there has been vaccine nationalism, we must not look to Europe: from day one we have helped our allies, our partners, decided to export doses to the most fragile countries", he pleaded.

"Biden speaks and Europeans applaud"

“Europe is the most generous continent with the rest of the world. We, out of the doses that we produced, approximately 65 million that were consumed for us and 45 million that were exported. Today, on the other doses produced for example in the British or the Americans, there is zero exported dose, ”he underlined. The left-wing opposition which had demanded the lifting of patents immediately vilified Emmanuel Macron, accusing him of a change of foot.

“Biden speaks and the Europeans applaud.

Even after voting against free vaccine licenses!

Hey Macron!

Take care of yourself !

", Tweeted the leader of the Insoumis Jean-Luc Mélenchon.

“Hypocrite Emmanuel Macron!

You fought against this lifting of the patents on the vaccine to serve your friends of the money and the pharmaceutical laboratories!

France voted AGAINST at the World Trade Organization!

Biden inspires you?

Perfect: tax the rich!

“, Added the number 2 of LFI Adrien Quatennens.

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