Source: European Parliament
Question for written answer E-000114/2025/rev.1
to the Commission
Rule 144
Virginie Joron (PfE)
At the Global Citizen charity concert in New York, Ursula von der Leyen announced a USD 290 million donation to Gavi, the global Vaccine Alliance, to vaccinate 500 million children[1].
Gavi, the global Vaccine Alliance, is an organisation which does not provide services for free. It is funded by the Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation (to the tune of more than USD 6 billion) and its members include vaccine-producing laboratories and the World Bank[2]. Other contributors include the European Union (EUR 3.2 billion), countries such as France (USD 800 million[3]), Coca-Cola, the Mormon Church and the Rockefeller Foundation.
According to Gavi, COVID-19 ‘vaccines’ can provide critical protection for children under the age of 12[4]. Yet half of these initial doses were administered in Africa between March 2022 and November 2023, after the pandemic’s critical phase[5].
- 1.Will Gavi’s portfolio of vaccines for children – paid for by Europeans – contain COVID-19 vaccines?
- 2.Given that France’s debt is spiralling out of control (EUR 3.303 trillion[6]) and is three times that of all African countries combined (EUR 1.106 trillion of debt for 1.5 billion inhabitants[7]), has France approved this donation from Brussels?
Submitted: 14.1.2025
- [1] 28 September 2024; https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-tCAlA1_xFQ; https://ec.europa.eu/commission/presscorner/detail/en/statement_24_4907
- [2] https://www.gavi.org/our-alliance/about; https://urls.fr/8vPjux
- [3] USD 796.8 million; https://www.gavi.org/investing-gavi/funding/donor-profiles/france
- [4] https://www.gavi.org/vaccineswork/covid-19-vaccines-can-provide-critical-protection-children
- [5] All ages combined: https://www.gavi.org/vaccineswork/how-get-vaccines-remote-areas-sierra-leone-theyre-delivered-foot-boat-or-motorbike
- [6] https://www.lefigaro.fr/conjoncture/la-dette-de-la-france-atteint-le-niveau-stratospherique-de-3303-milliards-d-euros-20241220
- [7] According to the World Bank’s International Debt Report for 2024, the total debt held by Africa, excluding North Africa, is USD 864 billion (EUR 831 billion). The debt held by the continent as a whole is USD 1.150 trillion (USD 7 billion for Algeria, USD 69 billion for Morocco, USD 41 billion for Tunisia, which is equivalent to EUR 1.106 trillion); https://urls.fr/t7cjdp