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To be a fly on the wall in no. 10. What's it to be? Save face? Of drive home ideology whilst folks die without the medicine they need. Tough one...
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"London is assessing whether the advantages of the European bloc’s bargaining power to strike deals with international drugs companies outweigh the broader political desire to sever ties with Brussels, UK officials said."
Brexit in microcosm, and the stupidity of so many of the 'arguments' for it encapsulated right there.
You really can't make this stuff up.....
Oh yes.. .with bells on.
To be a fly on the wall in no. 10. What's it to be? Save face? Of drive home ideology whilst folks die without the medicine they need. Tough one...
The UK is in talks to join an EU plan to secure supplies of potential coronavirus vaccines in an important test of the co-operation required to tackle international emergencies after Brexit.
London is assessing whether the advantages of the European bloc’s bargaining power to strike deals with international drugs companies outweigh the broader political desire to sever ties with Brussels, UK officials said.
The negotiations come as an international battle escalates to buy up coronavirus remedies, often long before their effectiveness has been confirmed. The US has poured billions of dollars into Covid-19 vaccine development and purchased much of the world’s supply of remdesivir, a coronavirus treatment produced by the US pharmaceuticals group Gilead.
The EU plans to spend billions of euros on its own vaccine purchase plan and is in talks with Johnson & Johnson of the US, while Britain has already struck its own bilateral deal with UK-based AstraZeneca.
The UK was invited to join the EU vaccine scheme under the Brexit withdrawal agreement in force since it left the bloc in January, which gives London the obligation to finance — and the right to be involved in — all projects under the EU’s 2014-2020 budget.
London is assessing whether the advantages of the European bloc’s bargaining power to strike deals with international drugs companies outweigh the broader political desire to sever ties with Brussels, UK officials said.
The negotiations come as an international battle escalates to buy up coronavirus remedies, often long before their effectiveness has been confirmed. The US has poured billions of dollars into Covid-19 vaccine development and purchased much of the world’s supply of remdesivir, a coronavirus treatment produced by the US pharmaceuticals group Gilead.
The EU plans to spend billions of euros on its own vaccine purchase plan and is in talks with Johnson & Johnson of the US, while Britain has already struck its own bilateral deal with UK-based AstraZeneca.
The UK was invited to join the EU vaccine scheme under the Brexit withdrawal agreement in force since it left the bloc in January, which gives London the obligation to finance — and the right to be involved in — all projects under the EU’s 2014-2020 budget.
Top comments:
"London is assessing whether the advantages of the European bloc’s bargaining power to strike deals with international drugs companies outweigh the broader political desire to sever ties with Brussels, UK officials said."
Brexit in microcosm, and the stupidity of so many of the 'arguments' for it encapsulated right there.
You really can't make this stuff up.....
Oh yes.. .with bells on.
Interesting how the EU reaches out to the UK whilst the US gobbles up as much medicine it can buy without a second thought for old Blighty.
Perhaps, just perhaps, the US isn't such a reliable ally to the UK as some would wish.
Perhaps, just perhaps, the US isn't such a reliable ally to the UK as some would wish.
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