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The EU opens up to impose a ban on the export of vaccines to countries that do not return to the EU. – All the alternatives are on the table, warns the president of the Commission, Ursula von der Leyen.
The President of the EU Commission, Ursula von der Leyen. Stock photo.
Covid-19 vaccination in EU countries has started very slowly, despite a slow start.
– It was a difficult start, says Commissioner von der Leyen at a press conference in Brussels when she reviews the figures that apply and apply for the first half of 2021.
It then also addresses the fact that the EU has so far granted 314 cases of vaccine exports from the EU to a total of 33 other countries, with more than 41 million doses. This is something that the EU has said so far with pride, as a sign of openness.
But there is also a warning finger pointing to other vaccine producing countries like the United States and the United Kingdom, from where exports to the EU look completely different.
– Open doors go in two directions. We must guarantee reciprocity. If nothing changes, we must make exports to vaccine-producing countries dependent on how their exports are, von der Leyen warns.
It also opens up the imposition of export restrictions to countries that have vaccinated much more than the EU.
– All options are on the table. We are in the crisis of the century. I am not ruling out anything, says von der Leyen in Brussels.
