AstraZeneca vaccine furore exposing 'frailties' of EU

Former Eastern Bloc is home to almost a quarter of the EU’s 440m population and is struggling to tame the pandemic

A link between AstraZeneca’s Covid-19 vaccine and a rare type of blood clot has been acknowledged by European drug regulators.

When European drug regulators acknowledged a link between AstraZeneca’s Covid-19 vaccine and a rare type of blood clot, it spread another dose of scepticism across the continent.

But in the poorer east, the doubts are more over the findings than the shot.