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Originally Posted by Chris
A point of information: the EU hasn't sent us a sausage. A company which has directly contracted with the UK government has begun fulfilling that contract by sending vaccines here, from its factory in Belgium. There is no EU largesse here, unless of course we are to understand that the ability of any business to export its products is a privilege to be bestowed or withdrawn on a whim.
The 'but we're exporting more than anyone' line is a piece of PR smoke-and-mirrors, an attempt by the European Commission to both have its cake and eat it. It can't simultaneously claim that its problem with AstraZeneca is with the company, not the UK, while at the same time claiming credit for the vaccine exports of other companies.
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I think Andrews argument is that the EU has the power to ban exports if it wanted to but to this stage has not. India is starting to restrict exports already and the USA has a virtual ban in exports already. However, this doesn't seem to raise the same levels of ire...