EU requires seizure of UK-made Covid vaccines – is that appropriate?

Guest essay by Eric Worrall

Following the recently announced failure of French vaccine trials, the EU appears to have panicked and tried to seize vaccines made under the treaty for the UK. They are even calling for vaccines made physically in the UK to be sent to Europe. The UK treaty was reportedly signed three months before the EU treaty.

EU bureaucrats attempt to seize UK-made vaccines after Covid bugs

VICTORIA FRIEDMAN
January 28, 2021

The European Union, unable to ensure the early production of coronavirus vaccines, is demanding that UK-made AstraZeneca cans made for the British be sent to Europe instead.

Earlier this week, the European Commission threatened to suspend exports of European-made vaccines manufactured under a UK contract after both drug makers Pfizer and AstraZeneca discovered a delay in delivery to the EU market due to production problems in Belgium .

While the Eurocrats wanted to blame AstraZeneca, claiming they favor the UK as a customer, the company’s CEO revealed that the UK had a deal three months ahead of the bloc, implying that Brussels bureaucracy was responsible for the lack of success in vaccine production.

To make up for the bloc’s deficit, the EU is now demanding that not only the export of pharmaceuticals be banned, but that millions of vaccines made in the UK by the British joint venture AstraZeneca-Oxford – under the contract meant for the UK government British – sent to Europe, according to The Telegraph.

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The Eurocrat said: “Not being able to secure production capacity goes against the letter and spirit of our agreement. We reject the “first come, first served” logic. That may work for the butchers in the neighborhood, but not for contracts. And not in our extended sales contracts. “

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Peter Liese from the Christian Democratic Union (CDU) led by Chancellor Angela Merkel said: “We have to show our weapons … we have to tell other companies in the world that if you treat Europeans as second class, you will suffer.”

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Read more: https://www.breitbart.com/europe/2021/01/28/eu-bureaucrats-try-to-seize-uk-made-vaccines-after-covid-failures/

Thanks to President Trump, the US is unlikely to be directly affected by this geopolitical ugliness. A priority of President Trump’s Operation Warp Speed ​​was the manufacture of US vaccines in the United States.

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