states to question the block's joint procurement scheme austria is one of them and chancellor sebastian kurtz has already negotiated a possible purchase of the russians sputnik feature. it would help us a lot because the vaccination process would be significantly accelerated i advocate that we do this we are now coordinating this with the federal government i really hope that we will be able to acquire this vaccine as well as use it this is not only my decision but i strongly support it. and germany's health minister says his country is also in talks to buy the sputnik v. shot from russia however the european medicines agency has deferred over the decision and has yet to grant approval for the job the former european commission president are drunk or young says that if sputnik the gets the green light the e.u. should include it in its procurement program and one cancer surgeon we spoke to things europe has allowed politics to get in the way of saving lives. we need the vaccines and the problem is it was a political initial we many people in europe didn't except the russian black sea and sputn