By V4 Agency
In the past few months, Brussels was heavily criticised for its vaccination programme. Now, in order to avoid additional questions, they are attempting to silence critical voices in the press.
Although Brussels is portraying itself as the champion of transparency, it is trying to keep the conditions of procuring coronavirus vaccines under wraps. In Hungary, however, vaccine procurement contracts have been made public.
At the time V4NA was established, Miklos Omolnar was accredited to the European Union as a project manager in Brussels, and was previously a member of the European Affairs Committee during his parliamentary career.
On his YouTube channel, the journalist revealed the contracts sealed by the EU with the four main vaccine manufacturers, Pfizer, Moderna, Sanofi and Janssen. The four contracts were described by the Brussels bureaucracy as SENSITIVE, implying that they are, in fact, trying to keep something secret.
European Commission spokesperson Stephan De Keersmecker had said the purchase orders for the vaccines were placed by member states, with the EC playing no role in this. However, the documents published by Mr Omolnar reveal that this is not true. The contracts were concluded by the European Union, with Health Commissioner Stella Kyriakides as the signatory.
Miklos Omolnar also told TV2’s morning show Mokka that certain details of the document had been classified.
The European Commission has only published the AstraZeneca contracts on its official website so far, but those document also have pages with their full content obscured.
It so appears that Brussels is doing everything in its power to silence critical voices, including the voices of journalists, who would ask questions about the suspicious details of the joint jab procurement.
A search on the BBC website for “vaccine contract Hungary” does not return any articles.
Politico and The Guardian have not reported on the topic, either.
