Refusal to support measure despite Ursula von der Leyen highlighting 21m doses sent to UK
EU leaders backed “global value chains” rather than support Brussels in using new powers to block Covid jab exports to highly vaccinated countries, despite being told that 21m doses had been sent to the UK.
At a virtual summit, attended briefly by Joe Biden, the European commission president, Ursula von der Leyen, highlighted the large shipments sent over the Channel, amounting to two-thirds of the jabs given in the UK.
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WNU Editor: Even with this agreement tempers are running short. From the U.K. .... Furious Tories accuse EU of having 'no respect for the law' after French threaten to BLOCK Britain's second vaccine doses and claim UK will run out of jabs without help from Brussels (Daily Mail). From France .... Coronavirus: France accuses UK of 'blackmail' over vaccine exports (BBC).
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EU doesn't want to see the "elephant in the living-room": Russia has a vaccine, UK has one too, China has two and US has three....EU has zero. Accusing other's is a low level defense but, well, that is the only level it can reach (and French are the worst).
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