Coronavirus - Szijjarto: Hungarian experts have sole right to decide on jabs

Hungary's government will not let either Brussels or the Hungarian left wing contest the ability and right of Hungarian experts to decide what vaccines could be used in the country in the case of an emergency, Foreign Minister Peter Szijjarto told a press conference after meeting his Austria, Czech, Slovak and Slovenian counterparts in Brdo pri Krajni, in Slovenia. There are clear European rules in place concerning who is authorised to decide whether a vaccine is safe or not. The European Medicines Agency -- or, in the case of an emergency, the national authorities -- may make such decisions. Challenging the right of the latter to decide is a non-European approach that runs counter to the European rules, he said.