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EU chief backs investigation into Coronavirus origin and says China should be involved
CNBC ^ | 05/04/2020 | Silvia Amaro

Posted on 05/04/2020 12:35:54 PM PDT by SeekAndFind

The president of the European Commission backed calls for an investigation into the origin of the new coronavirus and said China should be involved in the process.

Lawmakers in countries like Germany, Sweden and Australia have called for a probe into how the virus started, which has so far infected over 3.2 million people and killed over 230,000.

Speaking to CNBC, Ursula von der Leyen, the head of the EU’s executive arm, said she would like to see China work together with her organization, and others, to get to the bottom of exactly how it emerged.

“I think this is for all of us important, I mean for the whole world it is important. You never know when the next virus is starting, so we all want for the next time, we have learned our lesson and we’ve established a system of early warning that really functions and the whole world has to contribute to that,” she told Geoff Cutmore in an exclusive interview Thursday.

She called for more transparency in the future and said governments needed to learn lessons from the current crisis.

“One of the lessons learned from this pandemic is that we need more robust data, overall, and we need more centralized than an entity that is analyzing those data so that the early warning mechanism is way better,” she said.

“For example, at the level of the European Union, we know that we need a more robust data system for such situations as we see it right now with the coronavirus. And for building up a system that is, that you can count on.”

(Excerpt) Read more at cnbc.com ...


TOPICS: Australia/New Zealand; Culture/Society; Foreign Affairs; Germany; News/Current Events
KEYWORDS: australia; china; cnbc; coronavirus; eu; europeanunion; germany; msnbc; nbc; nobrainscollectively; origin; sweden; ursulavonderleyen

1 posted on 05/04/2020 12:35:54 PM PDT by SeekAndFind
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To: SeekAndFind
EU chief backs investigation into Coronavirus origin and says China should be involved in the coverup

Fixed

2 posted on 05/04/2020 12:38:50 PM PDT by CatOwner
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To: SeekAndFind

Xi Jinping issued their opinion to them, as expected, and the cheese eating surrender monkeys rolled over, as expected.


3 posted on 05/04/2020 12:40:31 PM PDT by datura
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To: SeekAndFind

The EU probably wants the Butchers of Beijing to lead the “investigation”.


4 posted on 05/04/2020 12:41:33 PM PDT by Gay State Conservative (The Rats Just Can't Get Over The Fact That They Lost A Rigged Election!)
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To: SeekAndFind

The Fox investigates what happened to the hens.


5 posted on 05/04/2020 12:42:14 PM PDT by dfwgator (Endut! Hoch Hech!)
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To: SeekAndFind

China’s willingness to “participate” will depend on the worlds major economic power’s willingness to force that participation.


6 posted on 05/04/2020 12:43:52 PM PDT by ETCM
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To: AdmSmith; AnonymousConservative; Arthur Wildfire! March; Berosus; Bockscar; cardinal4; ColdOne; ...
...and said China should be involved in the process.

7 posted on 05/04/2020 12:45:23 PM PDT by SunkenCiv (Imagine an imaginary menagerie manager imagining managing an imaginary menagerie.)
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To: SeekAndFind

a more robust data system for such situations

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More bureaucracy. Just what the EU needs.


8 posted on 05/04/2020 12:46:26 PM PDT by Starboard
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To: SeekAndFind

Whats to investigate? We know the chinese shut down travel within the country, but allowed millions of people to travel to other countries from the hot zone. Add to that, they were scooping up all the PPE they could get their hands on world wide. All while telling the rest of the world there was no pandemic and no human to human transfer. That alone justifies complete isolation from the rest of the world and complete forfeiture of any foreign investments they have.


9 posted on 05/04/2020 12:46:55 PM PDT by JoSixChip (I blame the teacher's unions)
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To: Gay State Conservative

We know Bill Gates wants to and the Eurotrash who used to hate Bill Gates now keep quoting him in articles


10 posted on 05/04/2020 12:49:16 PM PDT by JudgemAll (Democrats Fed. job-security in hatse:hypocrites must be gay like us or be tested/crucified)
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To: datura

Preecisely right. They rolled over — as expected.

Its what they do.


11 posted on 05/04/2020 12:49:56 PM PDT by Starboard
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To: SeekAndFind

Dear Chief of the ‘yewwwwwwww’. In case you’re REALLY the dumbass we believe you are, the chinese are HEAVILY involved. Fookin’ idjit!


12 posted on 05/04/2020 12:51:13 PM PDT by rktman ( #My2ndAmend! ----- Enlisted in the Navy in '67 to protect folks rights to strip my rights. WTH?)
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and said China should be involved in the process.

Is that like the DNC investigating Joe?

13 posted on 05/04/2020 12:55:35 PM PDT by Pollard (shadowbanned)
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14 posted on 05/04/2020 1:02:08 PM PDT by a fool in paradise (Joe Biden- “First thing I’d do is repeal those Trump tax cuts.” (May 4th, 2019))
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To: Pollard
Well here's Bill Gates going on Chinese state run propaganda to dispel those “vaccine conspiracy theories”

Bill Gates responds to vaccine conspiracy theories on CCTV
570,813 views•Apr 10, 2020
On CGTN
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nFUdX_0PpT0
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/CGTN_(TV_channel)
...it is owned and operated by China Central Television (CCTV), a state-owned media organization of China, under the control of the Publicity Department of the Communist Party of China.[2] The service is aimed at the overseas market, spreading Communist propaganda to less informed audience.

15 posted on 05/04/2020 1:03:55 PM PDT by a fool in paradise (Joe Biden- “First thing I’d do is repeal those Trump tax cuts.” (May 4th, 2019))
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To: SeekAndFind

As soon as china barks they will all shut up and sit down


16 posted on 05/04/2020 1:23:49 PM PDT by ronnie raygun
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