“We lack vaccines”, warns Jean-Louis Bourlanges (Modem)

Emmanuel Macron warned that new health decisions would be taken. The Head of State did not wish to mea culpa on his policy to fight against Covid-19 so far. “The mea culpa is not appropriate, no one plans to reproach the French leaders and others with a moral fault”, explains Jean-Louis Bourlanges, Modem deputy and chairman of the Foreign Affairs committee at the National Assembly, guest of the “4 Vérités” of France 2, Friday March 26th.

“I think we were right to do everything we could to keep the children in school. We cannot continue to slaughter the education of the youth.”, says the Modem MP. “For three weeks, we should have reacted faster and stronger. We now have an emergency situation. I think that we will not escape a school closure, I hope short-lived”, he adds.

The countries of the European Union seem powerless to stop the third wave. “There is no European straitjacket. Europe has been slow enough, quite numb, it has not been handled satisfactorily, but it is a mistake in reasoning to think [que la campagne de vaccination] Israel or the United Kingdom, it is generalizable. The truth is, we are running out of vaccines. However, you can only cure this pandemic globally. If half of Europe does not have vaccines, all of Europe is doomed to relapse “, indicates the chairman of the Foreign Affairs Committee to the National Assembly.

Should we review the political mechanism of the European Union? “You cannot decide unanimously in the EU. Everything that is done by qualified majority works,”, concludes Jean-Louis Bourlanges.