EU leaders back 'global value chains' instead of vaccine export bans
by Daniel Boffey in Brussels from on (#5FSNB)
Refusal to support measure despite Ursula von der Leyen highlighting 21m doses sent to UK
EU leaders backed global value chains" rather than support Brussels in using new powers to block Covid jab exports to highly vaccinated countries, despite being told that 21m doses had been sent to the UK.
At a virtual summit, attended briefly by Joe Biden, the European commission president, Ursula von der Leyen, highlighted the large shipments sent over the Channel, amounting to two-thirds of the jabs given in the UK.
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