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https://www.telegraph.co.uk/business...ster-brussels/

For paywall users, the above referenced article by Ambrose Evans-Pritchard has it in a nutshell. I'll quote that jewel, itself a statement made by Daniel Stelter, Germany’s corporate guru:

By failing to procure vaccines, the EU has validated Brexit and given all EU citizens an objective reason for euroscepticism,”

Ambrose-Evans also points out that the vaccine procurement was a power -grab by Brussels, as is the 750 billion recovery fund.

He also points out that Brussels is only interested in power. He exemplifies this through the Brexit negotiations (power not trade), through the vaccine negotiations (which, he says, were price led not solution driven). He underlines deep German suspicion over how VDL would use the recovery fund and how close it would bring the EU to fiscal union, which Germany would have to bankroll.

Boy are we right to be forging our own destiny.

Btw, James O'Brian on LBC today is knocking the Guymin for going "cap in hand" to the EU to ease the NI situation. He doesn't emphasise that the UK have the threat ready of invoking its own Article 16 measures. Indeed we should in order to test the resolution mechanism.