BRUSSELS – A vaccine fight between Britain and the European Union intensified on Wednesday, highlighting rapidly deteriorating relations, which have already been backed by disputes over the deal that strengthened Britain’s divorce as a bloc.
The last blow to the once close US allies came when the EU announced it would consider giving Member States more power to block exports of Covid-19 vaccine, of which the UK was the largest foreign beneficiary. EU.
The British vaccination campaign has dealt at least one blow to almost half of the country’s adults, as opposed to the EU’s so far low launch.
The UK left the bloc on 31 January last year and began a new economic relationship earlier this year, based on a state-of-the-art trade agreement that specified a long-term trade relationship.
At the time, British Prime Minister Boris Johnson said the agreement marked “a resolution to the old, tired, upset problem of Britain’s political relations with Europe, which has endangered our post-war history.” He said Britain would be “the best friend and ally the EU could have”.