Poland on Monday appealed a Brussels court judgment ordering it to take delivery of roughly 64 million unwanted Covid-19 doses and pay Pfizer about \u20ac1.3 billion. Warsaw also asked judges to freeze the ruling\u2019s provisional enforcement while the challenge is heard.<\/p>\n
\u201cThe decision of the court of first instance does not take into account all the relevant factual and legal circumstances of the case,\u201d the Health Ministry said in a statement<\/a>. It added that Poland would use \u201call legal means of defense,\u201d but declined to disclose its arguments or evidence, citing the need to protect the state\u2019s interests.<\/p>\n The ruling which Poland appealed relates to a 2021 agreement<\/a> the European Commission negotiated with Pfizer on behalf of EU countries. Poland stopped accepting vaccine deliveries in 2022, citing<\/a> collapsing demand and the impact of Russia’s war against Ukraine. Pfizer sued<\/a> Poland and Romania the following year. In April 2026, a Brussels court ruled that Warsaw remained bound<\/a> by the contract and ordered it to pay roughly \u20ac1.3 billion, plus interest and legal costs, for the undelivered doses.<\/p>\n Pfizer defended the Belgian judgment, which it told POLITICO reflected \u201cthe importance of the contractual obligations that underpinned a successful European pandemic response, built on the principle of solidarity between Member States.\u201d The company said it was taking \u201cappropriate steps\u201d to ensure compliance through \u201cestablished legal enforcement mechanisms,\u201d adding that those efforts followed \u201cyears of discussions and significant flexibility to accommodate Member States’ circumstances.\u201d<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Poland on Monday appealed a Brussels court judgment ordering it to take delivery of roughly 64 million unwanted…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":19851,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[1215,361,1387,9,126,127,12515],"class_list":["post-19850","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-poland","tag-courts","tag-defense","tag-enforcement","tag-poland","tag-russia","tag-ukraine","tag-vaccines"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/poland\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/19850","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/poland\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/poland\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/poland\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/poland\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=19850"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/poland\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/19850\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/poland\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/19851"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/poland\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=19850"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/poland\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=19850"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/poland\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=19850"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}