Covid: What will be the fallout from the UK-EU vaccine row?
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Covid: What will be the fallout from the UK-EU vaccine row?
Covid: What will be the fallout from the UK-EU vaccine row?
There is no question of the fury at EU chiefs' activities on Friday - and the horror in EU
circles described by my colleague Katya Adler here.
Some messages flying around between Brussels and Westminster were too colourful
to repeat here.
But after the fireworks, and attempt to quickly chuck cold buckets of water over them,
is there anything left smouldering from those extraordinary events that matters in
the long term?
One well placed insider has told me it's just too early to know, because
it's not completely clear whether the EU Commission top brass tried at all to think
it through.
If they considered the impact on Northern Ireland but went ahead, knowing
the consequences could be major, that's a problem and implies a cavalier attitude to
Northern Ireland.
If, on the other hand, they just hadn't realised the implications, it's alarming that senior
figures were so naive - but, given the mistake was quickly corrected, perhaps
not much harm has been done.
But others - on both sides of the Brexit debate - have made up their minds.
One close observer of Brussels and the European Commission said: "The Commission
is scrambling given Europe's poor performance on vaccines and [its president Ursula]
von der Leyen's top team is wobbling.
"Friday's mess shows Brussels never really cared about Northern Ireland -
the veil has been lifted."
Ouch! Given that the EU, for years, talked about the importance of avoiding a hard
border in Ireland and respecting the peace process, that is quite the accusation.
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