Even Guy Verhofstadt has seen through the EU’s vaccine fiasco

It is a rant worthy of Nigel Farage in his pomp. One of the leading figures within the European Parliament has launched a blistering tirade against the Commission’s ineptitude in securing vaccines. The EU is a world leader in making inoculations, he points out. And yet there is a shortage of supply in every country within the Union. The measures taken to fix that so far have been ‘symbolic,’ ‘insufficient’ and sometimes even ‘counterproductive’. Worse, there has been a shocking lack of accountability, with no one held responsible for the failure. The critic? None other than the arch federalist, scourge of Brexiteers, and hero of Lib Dem party conferences, Guy Verhofstadt.

In a video released over Facebook and Twitter, the former Belgium Prime Minister, whose passion for full political and economic union knows no limits, expertly skewers the Commission’s power-grab over healthcare policy, its ham-fisted contracts with the drugs companies, and the catastrophic way it tried to cover up its mistakes by blaming everyone else.