Who does not let "Sputnik V" into Europe.
May 20, 2021.
Russian foreign intelligence has learned that registration in the EU of the Russian vaccine against COVID-19 is being slowed down due to pressure on the European Medicines Agency from the high offices of the Brussels bureaucracy. At the same time, the EU authorities propose to allow entry only to those vaccinated with vaccines approved by the European regulator. Will traveling Russians have to be vaccinated with foreign drugs?
Registration of the Russian vaccine "Sputnik V" in the EU countries is being delayed due to "signals from high offices" in Brussels, Director of the Foreign Intelligence Service (SVR) Sergei Naryshkin said on Wednesday. He called such behavior immoral in a pandemic.
“The European Medicines Agency (EMA), which carries out the registration of all medicinal products, is pulling, - said the head of the SVR. - I don't want to blame EMA experts and specialists, but we know for certain that this delay is connected with the corresponding signals ... Why is this happening? Are there only political reasons for this, or is there still an economic factor? I don’t know, let the citizens of European countries and law enforcement agencies understand this themselves, but we understand that this is simply immoral".
Earlier, European authorities tried to discredit the Russian vaccine in the eyes of Europeans. For example, in March, European Commissioner for Internal Market Thierry Breton announced on TF1 TV that the European Union absolutely did not need Sputnik V. Later, the same European official said that even if the Russian vaccine was allowed in Europe, Sputnik V would come too late. Also, the European Commissioner doubted that the required number of Sputnik V doses would be available in the EU until the end of 2021. These allegations prompted the manufacturers of Sputnik V to send a letter to Breton asking them to stop biased statements against the drug.
Now, along with the delay in registration of the Russian vaccine in their countries, the EU leadership is sowing fears among already vaccinated tourists that they may not be allowed into the EU. On Wednesday, sources in the EU's governing bodies said that EU countries would agree to allow fully vaccinated tourists to enter the community. At the same time, the European Commission recommended that EU countries allow entry only to tourists vaccinated with drugs certified by the EMA agency - and Sputnik V and other Russian vaccines are not included in their list.
“This is how the international pharmaceutical lobby works and how it commands European officials. They are puppets.
But these EU officials must be told that hundreds of lives are on their conscience. If they had registered our vaccine, then a much larger population would have been vaccinated. Every vaccinated person is a saved life, ”State Duma deputy, former chief sanitary doctor of Russia Gennady Onishchenko told the VZGLYAD newspaper.
The parliamentarian stressed that the actions of the authorities in those 60 countries of the world where Sputnik V has already been registered look much more adequate. “India, where the situation is now the most difficult in terms of the epidemiological process, has adjusted the production of our vaccine, although it also delayed it. Europeans only make themselves worse, "Onishchenko said.
People from the "high offices" who prevent the registration of "Sputnik V" can be divided into two categories, believes Stanislav Tkachenko, professor of the Department of European Studies at the Faculty of International Relations of St. Petersburg State University, an expert of the Valdai Club. In his opinion, first of all, these are those "pharmaceutical European companies that claim a market measured in billions of euros" and politicians who lobby for the interests of Big Pharma at the level of the Brussels leadership.
Tkachenko included in the second group the Russophobic politicians "who know that Europe has soft power resources." “The opportunity to deprive Russia of the European market is an instrument of economic coercion or soft power, which the European Union has, but Russia does not. In this sense, we can regret, but we cannot do anything. This is the sovereign right of Europeans, ”the political scientist explained.
Tkachenko, however, does not share the fears that if the Russian vaccine is not approved by the European Union, then the Russians entering the EU countries will have to be vaccinated with a foreign vaccine (even if there is Sputnik V vaccination): “It will be necessary to do a test showing the number antibodies, and enter with these tests. There is no requirement to pass only EU-registered vaccines. The Europeans will let Russians into Europe, they need our money, our tourists and businessmen".
It cannot be said that the EU leadership deliberately slows down the process of recognition of Sputnik V (registration of pharmaceuticals is a long process), but it clearly does not seek to speed it up, believes Gleb Kuznetsov, a political scientist and head of the expert council of the Expert Institute for Social Research (EISI).
“Of course, Sputnik V will be registered in the European Union,” the interlocutor believes, “But this will happen when the EU covers its needs with other vaccines. This will allow them to declare later that they did not need the Russian drug at all. Pharmacological leaders of the European Union openly say that by the middle of summer they will not need Sputnik V ”.
The political scientist called the fears that visitors will have to do two vaccinations - Russian and foreign, if our vaccine is not approved in the EU - unfounded. “The vaccine passport, which is being discussed in the EU, says that either vaccinated, or with an antibody test, or with a negative PCR test will be allowed. Thus, they will be allowed in including those who are not vaccinated, ”Kuznetsov explained.
Text: Natalia Makarova, Andrey Rezchikov
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