And if your response to this is "companies export, the EU does not export" - correct! Congratulate yourself for having made an obvious point. Well done!
The numbers are aggregate numbers from plants in EU countries.
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OK, now I have found time to look at von der Leyen's actual words earlier... the whole statement is here: ec.europa.eu/commission/pre…
Highlighted bit is what got everyone excited
"countries, who have higher vaccination rates" can only really refer to the UK and USA at this stage (Israel does not have its own production just now AFAIK)
"whatever tool we need to deliver on that" has been interpreted as the Commission wanting to use Article 122 TFEU
After all the fuss in the UK press earlier this week that some European countries were somehow punishing the UK vaccine, I decided to take a look at how German public broadcaster ARD frames this on the website of its news programme Tagesschau tagesschau.de
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For non-Germans: Tagesschau is the evening news on ARD, one of the two national public broadcasting TV channels. Its website is the place you go for a quick but bland overview of what's going on in the news. Something like the BBC News website
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Separating out all the search terms is a bit tricky, but here is a rudimentary effort