European Commission President Ursula von der Leyen is under fire as anger grows over the European Union’s botched vaccine procurement program.

Member states tasked the EU with procuring vaccines on their behalf — a choice that, they have now learned, was a rather significant mistake. Other countries, such as the United States, Britain, and Israel, ordered more vaccine doses and did so months earlier. The result is that they have been far more successful in vaccinating their populations than the EU. It is an absurd situation: On vaccine procurement, von der Leyen did not want to spend big sums on vaccines. And this is despite the EU’s $910 billion spending to mitigate the impact of the coronavirus crisis.