EU's vaccine failure is because it didn't 'shoot for the stars,' Macron says

French President Emmanuel Macron visits a COVID-19 vaccination center in Valenciennes, France March 23, 2021. Yoan Valat/Pool via REUTERS

PARIS (Reuters) - European leaders failed to see that COVID-19 vaccines would be developed as soon as they were and this was why rollouts in the EU now lagged behind some other countries, French President Emmanuel Macron said in an interview broadcast on Wednesday.

"Everybody, all the experts said: Never in the history of mankind was a vaccine developed in less than a year," Macron told Greek television channel ERT.