- A conspiracy on the part of AZ and many of it EU employees (in a part Swedish company with a French national CEO) to deny EU citizens vaccines. They're doing this by refusing to seek approval for Halix.
- There is another reason why they haven't sought approval from EMA. I'd suggest the most likely is that they believe that they wouldn't get approval. Given the issues we've seen so far with manufacturing and regulation during the pandemic this seems to me to be very likely.
In the meantime what are they supposed to do with the vaccines they have already produced (which presumably wouldn't get EMA approval as they were made in a plant that wasn't approved) and which other countries have approved and which will save lives when they are used?
I'm not saying either side is in the right - just that a conspiracy seems the least likely underlying cause.