The relationship between the UK and the EU is rapidly becoming similar to that between Canada and the US - public opinion in the former cares lots about what the latter does, but that's not so much the case the other way around.
In the UK bubble I follow I see lots of frantic takes and debates hlabiut how this or that move by the EU should or could be seen.
In my EU bubble I see discussions of what AstraZeneca did or didn't do and when and how we will get the vaccines (or not). The UK hardly figures.
In my EU bubble I see discussions of what AstraZeneca did or didn't do and when and how we will get the vaccines (or not). The UK hardly figures.
Of course, it's involved in some way in this whole imbroglio. But nobody actively discusses how move x or y could be seen in the UK. It really feels very much like domestic US debates that don't care much (if at all) about how stuff is perceived in Canada.
Btw, I don't think that's necessarily good. It makes the EU debate more insular and the UK debate more parochial and obsessive. But that's where we're at for the moment.
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