EU threatens to block exports of Pfizer Covid vaccine.
Concerns over supply to Britain as Brussels demands tighter controls after AstraZeneca row
Britain's Covid vaccine supply is in jeopardy after the EU threatened to block exports of the Belgian-made Pfizer jabs amid a row with UK-based AstraZeneca.
Brussels decided to impose tighter controls on exports after reacting with fury to the news that AstraZeneca will deliver 50 million fewer doses to the EU than it had expected.
Ministers now fear deliveries of the Pfizer jabs will – at best – be delayed by extra paperwork and that the EU could try to stop doses being sent...
...Back in March, the bloc imposed export restrictions on personal protective equipment after it struggled with supply to its member states.
On Monday night, MPs accused the EU of acting out of "spite" and trying to deflect blame for its own mistakes.
One of the key ingredients in the Belgian made Pfizer vaccine is made in the UK. The lipids are made by Croda, here. Any interruption of the Pfizer vaccine supply for spiteful, nationalistic reason must be answered by a ban on the export of the lipids out of the UK.
So much for all the remainers who were screaming hysterically from the rooftops about the UK not joining the EU scheme. We'd have probably had a tenth of the supply we've managed to secure for ourselves after the EU allocated the supply vaccines 'fairly' (ie not prioritising the UK).
When are these people going to wake up? With the EU people don't matter, only themselves and politics.
The EU are sabre-rattling about a trade war now, they are so obsessed with the UK it's embarrassing. Their own bloc is burning, riots in The Netherlands and Belgium. In France they're fuming and Le Pin is ahead in the polls.
They're just fantastic when it comes to deciding the correct size and shape of fruit and veg, but any real crisis and they are found wanting, do the wrong thing and blame everybody else.
A talking committee brimming with junket-loving spaff monkeys; heaven forbid if they ever do get that army, they'll rock up and realise the weapons had no lethal packages. FFS.