Austrian Chancellor Sebastian Kurz has criticized the European Union’s medicine regulator for being “too slow” in approving coronavirus vaccines as he outlined plans to co-ordinate more closely with Israel on future inoculations.

Kurz said that while the EU’s common procurement and licensing policy for vaccines was “right in principle,” the European Medicines Agency (EMA) “is too slow in approving vaccines and there have been supply bottlenecks at manufacturers.”

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