EU Launches “Vaccine War” in Britain Ego Discovered Threatening Vaccine Supply | Masato Kimura | Column

Illustration / Given Ruvic-REUTERS, the EU is angry and trying to steal Britain’s starting lineup to get the vaccine first

[Desde Londres]The transition period ended at the end of last year, and the EU unilaterally launched a “vaccine war” on the 29th against Great Britain, which had completely withdrawn from the European Union (EU). This is not an exaggeration, but a violence that exposes the ugly nature of the EU, which has continued to deceive “peace and prosperity projects”.

EU-hating British tabloid “Keep your turn! Self-Chu EU demands our vaccine” (Daily Express), “No, EU. Don’t let them steal the vaccine from us!” (Daily) The EU imposed a vaccination ban in the UK, although it was making noise.

Northern Ireland in the EU withdrawal agreement to exclude the export of the US Pfizer vaccine and British Oxford vaccine produced in EU member countries, the Netherlands, Belgium and Germany, from Ireland to the Kingdom Kingdom through Northern Ireland in the United Kingdom. Border control was invoked based on Article 16 of the Protocol.

The EU, which has continued to blame Britain for not reviving its borders in the EU exit negotiations. This is what I say. “The EU has once again shown its readiness to use Northern Ireland in the most despicable way,” said Arlene Foster, leader of the Democratic Unionist Party (DUP) in Northern Ireland.

Thats not all. “The European Council is preparing to seize intellectual property and data by exercising the emergency authority of Article 122 of the Basic Law of the EU (Treaty of Lisbon) for AstraZeneca and others within a few days,” reported the British daily Daily Telegraph. It is the same as the requisitioning of private companies during the war. If this is true, it is no longer crazy.

At the end of December last year, when a mutant strain with up to 70% infectivity was confirmed in the UK, France blocked the Strait of Dover without hesitation and some 10,000 heavy trucks were stranded. If you don’t like it, the EU threatens to stop the supply chain unilaterally. The EU naval blockade will further accelerate the British “Brexit”.

EU with delay in the purchase of vaccines

The confusion is that the delivery of vaccines developed and manufactured jointly by the University of Oxford in the UK and AstraZeneca, a major British pharmaceutical company, to the EU will be 31 million times in the first quarter of this year (January to March). , a 60% decrease from the initial plan It all started when the communication was collected. In reality, only 25 million of the 100 million doses could be insured.

The UK signed a contract to buy 100 million Oxford vaccines in May last year. The EU contracted up to 400 million purchases in August of the same year, three months later. The UK Medicines and Health Products Regulatory Agency (MHRA) approved the emergency use of the Oxford vaccine on December 30 of the same year, while the EU’s European Medicines Agency (EMA) approved it on January 29. , about a month later.