This is a story of death and betrayal, of how the European Commission leadership prioritised Big Pharma’s profits over the access to life-saving vaccines for the world’s poorest during the COVID-19 pandemic.

This is the fifth episode of Corporate Europe Observatory's new podcast series “What's going wrong, and how to put it right?”.

Text editing and research by Olivier Hoedeman, script by Olivier and Joana Louçã, sound design and editing by Gui Calegari, graphic design by José Torres. Don’t miss next week’s episode about how the covid vaccine distribution ended up as a case of catastrophic moral failure.