the vaccine produced by german thought of pharmaceutical company by ontic and the american drug micah pfizer last week. our brussels bureau chief alexander phenomena is standing by for us in brussels alexandra a historic day in the fight against this pandemic what's the a use role in this back same rollout. you commission president or the law for underly and described it as a touching moment of for europe's you need and this was exactly what the european union the was aiming for in this case of the fight against the coronavirus in the member states could have moved forward individually but instead they decided that it is the european commission talking to pharmaceutical companies procuring big scenes and coordinating could the roll out of that scenes now across the continent across the block and it was important to make sure that every member state is getting vaccines at the same time and that's been poor member states are not being left behind left along with that countries like the u.s. and the u.k. have already begun vaccinating people why did it take the e.u. longer to get there it took