Poland & Romania Ordered to Pay Pfizer $2.2 Billion Over COVID‑19 Vaccine Contracts
A Belgian court has ruled today that Poland and Romania must honor multibillion‑euro COVID‑19 vaccine contracts with U.S. pharmaceutical company Pfizer and its partner BioNTech, ordering the two Eastern European EU member states to pay for doses they ordered but later refused to accept. The combined obligation, roughly €1.9 billion (about $2.2 billion), stems from contracts originally…