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Re: [Updated] The UK’s future relationship with the EU
Nobody can expect the demands of a supranational institution to take priority over the State’s responsibility to protect and defend its citizens.
Restrictions may well apply at the EU level for the time being, but if things get serious enough you can be certain that domestic needs will triumph. As has been noted, even before we left the EU the UK Gov kept a list of pharmaceuticals that may not be exported where domestic supply needs to be protected. It is high time that more states than just the UK woke up to the risks of stretching supply chains across international frontiers.
Of course the inexorable logic of the EU project is that it become a single State, so these issues cease to be relevant. Doubtless when the inquest begins some time next year the Brussels elite will exclaim that the solution to the problem is ‘more Europe’ - they always do.
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