By wanting to protect its citizens from incompetent, unelected European bureaucrats.
That’s not very nice. What about European solidarity or, whatever they call it these days? We should all die at the same rate. Equally. I know: We’ll call them rotten Nazis!
Merkel Ally Urges Germany to Circumvent EU on Covid Shots – A senior member of Angela Merkel’s conservative bloc took a swipe at the chancellor’s vaccine strategy, calling for Germany to purchase shots at the national level because the European Union is too slow.
At the current rate, Germany will need 2.8 years to inoculate 75% of the population with a two-dose vaccine.

