Reply to: OOPs EU get the lawyers in and miss out?

[SueEllen]

France and Germany threaten AstraZeneca over vaccine shortage | Coronavirus | The Guardian

Looks like individual EU members (France and Germany) are now threatening AZ.

To be fair the Commission screwed them over.

[darmstadt]

Yep but he hasn't gone through with it, even considering how much disruption has occurred, and how much noise has been made about it. That's because its a nuclear option, only used when nothing else can be done.

Brussels has one bad week in the press over its mishandling of their disaster of a vaccine programme, and just says 'sod it' and pushes the button without even discussing with ROI or NI before hand.

the EU didn't go through with it either, they just proposed it. The UK are paying nearly 3 times the price per dose from AZ than the EU as they insisted on a clause in the contract that they would get all their doses to the detriment of everyone else. This is why Johnson cites 'national security' over the contents of the UK-AZ contract

[AtW]

That's because its a nuclear option, only used when nothing else can be done.

No it’s not

[CheeseSlice]

Alright for some: Protocol promise: PM in vow to trigger Article 16 if trading difficulties worsen - BelfastTelegraph.co.uk

Pot, kettle...

Yep but he hasn't gone through with it, even considering how much disruption has occurred, and how much noise has been made about it. That's because its a nuclear option, only used when nothing else can be done.

Brussels has one bad week in the press over its mishandling of their disaster of a vaccine programme, and just says 'sod it' and pushes the button without even discussing with ROI or NI before hand.

[AtW]

Boris Tory Govt are lying hippocritical scumbags shocker!!!

[darmstadt]

UK quietly restricted Covid medicine exports to EU | The Week UK

The government last year placed export restrictions on medicines that could be used to treat Covid-19, despite criticising the EU for considering its own controls on vaccines produced on the continent.


Exports of around 100 drugs that have been suggested as possible treatments were banned because they “are needed for UK patients”, Politico reports.


Analysis by the news site found that the government “imposed controls on the export of over 170 medicines to other countries” since March last year.
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Boris Johnson this week attacked the EU amid reports that the bloc was considering imposing export controls on the Pfizer Covid vaccine produced in Belgium. The prime minister said he strongly opposed “restrictions on the supply of drugs across borders” and “restrictions on vaccines or their ingredients across borders”.

[darmstadt]

[Hobosapien]

Arlene Foster urges Boris Johnson to replace NI protocol | Coronavirus | The Guardian

Repeal and Replace innit

UK should have got Microsoft to do the NI/EU protocol. Embrace, extend, extinguish.

[AtW]

Arlene Foster urges Boris Johnson to replace NI protocol | Coronavirus | The Guardian

Repeal and Replace innit

[BlasterBates]

The EU are so impressed in the way that the UK has put one over on the EU that they'll probably be ready to make significant concessions on the bureaucratic red tape that is strangling many UK businesses.

[AtW]

The UK have done an excellent job of hogging all the vaccines they manufacture themselves by using a confidential clause in the contract with Astra-Zeneca whereas EU countries have been exporting vaccines to countries without local vaccine manufacturing capability, as well as the UK! and shifting the blame of vaccine nationalism onto the EU.!

That explains why Boris was pissed at Nicola when she published vaccine delivery table because “UK might get gazumped”.

[vetran]

Its impressive the way the EU has created so much moral high ground that Bozo could build a strip club and bordello on it and yet still look good.

Markus Söder, the Bavarian premier and Germany's possible future chancellor, told ZDF television on Friday that it was his impression that the commission "ordered too late, and only bet on a few companies, they agreed on a price in a typically bureaucratic EU procedure and completely underestimated the fundamental importance of the situation."
Former Swedish prime minister Carl Bildt wrote on Twitter that he "had hoped not to see [the European Union] leading the world down the destructive path of vaccine nationalism".

[DonaldJTrump]

The UK have done an excellent job of hogging all the vaccines they manufacture themselves by using a confidential clause in the contract with Astra-Zeneca whereas EU countries have been exporting vaccines to countries without local vaccine manufacturing capability, as well as the UK! and shifting the blame of vaccine nationalism onto the EU.

respect!

So prudence and effective supply is now to be known as hogging?

I expect you support the World Health Organisation urging the UK to pause its vaccination programme once vulnerable groups have received their jabs to help ensure the global rollout is fair

[BlasterBates]

Thanks for proving the point I was making.

The UK have done an excellent job of hogging all the vaccines they manufacture themselves by using a confidential clause in the contract with Astra-Zeneca whereas EU countries have been exporting vaccines to countries without local vaccine manufacturing capability, as well as the UK! and shifting the blame of vaccine nationalism onto the EU.

respect!

[darmstadt]

Alright for some: Protocol promise: PM in vow to trigger Article 16 if trading difficulties worsen - BelfastTelegraph.co.uk

Pot, kettle...