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17 Feb, 4 tweets, 1 min read
Reap the whirlwind. Europe's anti-vaxx nationalism bearing fruit here. Hardly surprising after Germany, France and others called the vaccine into question on Purley political and irrational grounds

bloomberg.com/news/articles/…
In Berlin out of 30,000 doses of the vaccine delivered last week, only 990 had been administered so far
theguardian.com/world/live/202…
87,533 out of 736,800 delivered doses of AstraZeneca vaccine had been administered by yesterday
This is mind you, the anti-GM continent with decades now of anti-tech nationalism

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2 Feb
This Von der Leyen interview is a classic of the genre
No apologies, move along now nothing to see here, in fact things are better than expected and those who are doing more quickly are irresponsible

lemonde.fr/international/…
She unrstands the upset but ACTUALLY EU vaccinations going quicker than originally planned
“Things went faster than expected, which is good news: we didn't expect to start vaccinating until spring"
Never mind comparisons....
UK might be ahead but... Britain took, for her and the EU, unacceptable risks by authorising early jabs in breach of "gigantic responsibility" to follow "safety and efficacy requirements"
Never mind that the EU is using the same vaccines, just a lot later
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1 Feb
Her spokesman blamed Valdis Dombrovskis, trade, whose chief official Sabine Weyand wrote the NI protocol. The whole saga is still surrounded by lies, #1 being that Von der Leyen knew nothing about it
Von der Leyen's spokesman said: "This regulation falls under the responsibility of Dombrovskis and his cabinet and of course the services of the commission which respond to him"
That puts Weyand, DG of trade, right in the frame to be fall guy. She is most brilliant official of her generation, so would be quite some act of self-harmm
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20 Dec 20
The government has created a mutation monster as the frontiers now shutting because of the scare - Dutch, Belgian and German travel bans so far…
Marc Van Ranst, the Belgian virologist - and no stranger to sounding the alarm himself - has had 4 cases in his lab and sees the mutation as a “minor variant” only
“The new variant in England does not cause any additional concern,”
Belgium will close airports and Eurostar terminal from midnight for 24 hours as precautionary measure. “We don't have a conclusive answer yet,” said the PM De Croo
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18 Dec 20
What's the main hurdle? Fish
Barnier has doubled down in front of MEPs
Demanding demanding 8 year transition with fishing quotas remaining more or less unchanged
If UK then cuts quotas in annual negotiations - especially in the 12 nautical mile zone then it is trade sanctions Image
Listening to some of these MEPs, it is worth recalling that in July the EU rejected Frost's suggestion not to go for zero tariffs or quotas. Barnier said that even if it was like Japan or Canada, EU would still demand exactly the same
Important point from Barnier
"It is hardly surprising that at this stage we find the negotiations are difficult.”
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19 May 20
Some analysis on the big risks and battles ahead for Merkel and Macron over the historic Franco-German accord on a pandemic recovery fund
The 500bn fund is far from being a done deal and needs unanimous support of all 27 EU countries and there is strong opposition, including questions over its legality (although details are thin on the ground)
It avoids the taboo for Germany and others of taking on the national debt of countries like Italy by issuing German bonds to covering foreign borrowing. Instead taps legally established route of using EU budget to raise and disburse the cash
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18 May 20
Macron/Merkel plan would require extra national form all EU27 guarantees to MFF 2021-2027 worth 165bn
That would be leveraged into a fund worth 500bn
If paid out as grants, that 500bn would have to be paid back in total by all 27 via contributions or EU taxes
French argue that could be over a 40 year period - with no repayments at all for 3 years
To avoid burden of extra time EU budget contributions there could be new European taxes to pay it off
With a repayment schedule outside the MFF, as Germany has said, that suggests an SPV
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