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Originally Posted by papa smurf
It's hard to work out what the EU is fighting here.
A the virus
B the UK
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Judging by comments given by European Commission officials last night and this morning to various European media outlets, they are presently more interested in (B).
We can't blame them I guess. Brexit Britain was supposed to be an impoverished wasteland by now, languishing at the back of the queue for vaccinations against Covid and ruing the day we failed to join the illustrious EU procurement programme. But we turn out to have been rather better at it than them. The project intended to showcase the power of European unity has instead demonstrated the advantages of a nimble nation state marshalling its own resources. And whatever the short-term destination of vaccines made in the UK, there's no doubt that the massive production capacity taking form in this country is going to be a source of relief all over the world.