Thread by @BrunoBrussels

Back from the brink of a vaccine war? It seems so
thetimes.co.uk/article/angela…

Some important details. Halix stocks are the key - and it is a relatively small figure, some >4m doses when filled and finished

Britain is talking "reciprocity" on AstraZeneca production - and possibly Valneva and Novavax
Talks are on defining the principle in terms of UK's involvement in producing vaccine ingredients for European production, or finished jabs and levels of UK investment in manufacturing

UK factories are already key to European supply chains, providing the ingredients vaccines like Pfizer-BioNtech Brits invested heavily in European vaccine production, sometimes on a higher per capita level than the EU

So "reciprocity" is on the table. There might be more trouble ahead on another EU principle that could in fire be used to block or restrict exports of jabs to the UK, which is "equivalence"

That “equivalence” criterion means that exports could in future be diverted from UK to the EU if there are supply problems for Europe this spring into summer and Brit vaccination rates remain much higher than European ones

Britain has currently jabbed 45 out of 100 people while the EU's equivalent figure of administering doses to only 13 per 100