Source: European Parliament
Question for written answer E-002574/2025
to the Commission
Rule 144
Virginie Joron (PfE)
The Commission has refused to specify how many COVID-19 vaccine doses were purchased only to be destroyed[1]. ‘[T]he Commission secured a maximum amount of up to 4.6 billion doses of COVID-19 vaccines in agreement with and on behalf of the Member States, without requiring them to commit to purchasing this maximum amount.’ Yet less than a billion doses were actually administered.
According to the European Commission, the European Regional Development Fund was mobilised by different Spanish regions (around EUR 2 billion), as well as Lisbon (EUR 238 million) and Estonia (EUR 52 million) to finance the purchase of vaccine doses up until the end of December 2023 and carry out communication campaigns[2]. EU funds did not directly finance these doses, but the EU partners contributed 100 % in each case.
Considering that no similar information has been found for France or other countries on the European Commission’s website:
- 1.Which other EU countries financed their purchases of COVID-19 vaccines with European regional funds or other EU instruments?
- 2.How many doses were financed by European regional funds in 2023, when the pandemic officially ended in spring 2022?
- 3.Has the Commission checked whether the doses paid for with EU funds but not delivered were produced by Pfizer?
Submitted: 25.6.2025
- [1] https://www.europarl.europa.eu/doceo/document/E-9-2023-003364_EN.html
- [2] https://kohesio.ec.europa.eu/en/projects?sort=Total-Budget-(descending)&keywords=vaccine&page=3;https:%2F%2Fkohesio.ec.europa.eu%2Ffr%2Fprojets%2FQ4687090; https://kohesio.ec.europa.eu/en/projects/Q4485013; https://kohesio.ec.europa.eu/en/projects/Q4485013; https://kohesio.ec.europa.eu/en/projects/Q4687136; https://kohesio.ec.europa.eu/en/projects/Q4687099; https://kohesio.ec.europa.eu/en/projects/Q6860901; Andalusia (EUR 322 228 930 and EUR 44 731 652), Barcelona (EUR 293 927 550 and EUR 40 802 868), Madrid (EUR 255 179 120 and EUR 35 423 830)[2], Lisbon (EUR 238 684 490) and Estonia (EUR 52 767 804)