The ban is due to be debated virtually by leaders of the 27 EU member states on Thursday. Boris Johnson is expected to speak to his EU counterparts this week in a bid to halt the restriction. The European Commission president Ms von
Facts4EU experts pored over EU figures after the European Commission used emergency powers to issue its Implementing Regulation (EU) 2021/111 controlling the export of vaccines. Commission president Ursula von der Leyen has sought to justify the move by saying the bloc is
The European Commission is considering a ban on vaccine exports from the EU to the UK, in the latest threat to Brexit Britain coming from Brussels. But speaking on Monday, Irish Prime Minister Micheal Martin said the move would be “counterproductive”. He
Tensions were on the tip of boiling over last night with the EU making a series of fresh threats to the UK’s vaccination programme. Britain is calling on AstraZeneca jabs produced at a factory in the Netherlands to be shipped to the
The blockade on life-saving Covid jabs is said to be driven by fears Angela Merkel’s Christian Democrats could be decimated at the polls in September’s parliamentary elections. As a result of pressure from Berlin, European Commission President Ursula von der Leyen is
Britain’s immunisation drive would be “badly” delayed if the EU decided to impose the restriction, according to a report by the Guardian. Leaders of the 27 EU member states are set to discuss the potential ban on Thursday. Prime Minister Boris Johnson is
Andrew Marr spoke with EU finance chief Mairead McGuinness who defended the bloc’s behaviour after European Commission president Ursula von der Leyen threatened to ban exports of vaccines from the continent to countries with a high vaccination rate. While Ms McGuinness listed off