EU stokes anger with plan to restrict vaccine exports through Irish border

[nkg]

3 hours ago, sandyf said:

"Northern Ireland First Minister Arlene Foster described as "an incredible act of hostility" the decision by the EU to invoke Article 16 of the Northern Irish Protocol, which allows Britain or the EU to take unilateral action if there is an unexpected negative effect arising from the agreement."

 

Article 16 should only be used when required....by the DUP.

 

Speaking at a meeting of Westminster’s Northern Ireland Affairs Committee, the DUP’s North Antrim MP said it was time to invoke article 16 of the protocol.

https://www.irishtimes.com/news/politics/paisley-calls-for-britain-to-disapply-northern-protocol-due-to-trade-disruption-1.4451671

 

Predictable attempt from you to justify the EU's actions ????

 

We'd all respect you more if you were prepared to say "The EU got that wrong".

[kingdong]

7 hours ago, Bluespunk said:

Good to see eu realising their action here was idiotic and responding to Irish concerns. 
 

Such a swift u turn makes one wonder if sitting too close to johnson for any period of time results in being infected with this type of behaviour. (sarcasm alert)
 

https://www.theguardian.com/world/2021/jan/29/eu-controls-on-vaccine-exports-to-northern-ireland-trigger-diplomatic-row?CMP=Share_iOSApp_Other

And people are still whingeing that we left that shower of s** t you couldn,t make it up.

[Bluespunk]

1 minute ago, kingdong said:

And people are still whingeing that we left that shower of s** t you couldn,t make it up.

oh I’m sure you could. 

[kingdong]

8 hours ago, david555 said:

No ban ! ( yet..)

only a severe control what goes where to from E.U. production plants and to which country ....just a very strict controle on that ....

 

In between time ... the lawyers both sides are spitting out the contract(s)...... before any other action is made...

 

Can see details in article :

Amid vaccines row, EU adopts regulation to control export of COVID-19 jabs | Euronews

 

The eu totally screwed up their vaccine ordering and are now trying to bully and bluster their se!ves out of it.

[kingdong]

7 hours ago, Bluespunk said:

Good to see eu realising their action here was idiotic and responding to Irish concerns. 
 

Such a swift u turn makes one wonder if sitting too close to johnson for any period of time results in being infected with this type of behaviour. (sarcasm alert)
 

https://www.theguardian.com/world/2021/jan/29/eu-controls-on-vaccine-exports-to-northern-irelamakes a change for thend-trigger-diplomatic-row?CMP=Share_iOSApp_Other

 

5 hours ago, Bluespunk said:

What exactly have I blamed johnson for?

Well it can,t be for his handling of procuring supplies of the corona virus vaccine,,while the eu dithered,

[Bluespunk]

11 minutes ago, kingdong said:

 

Well it can,t be for his handling of procuring supplies of the corona virus vaccine,,while the eu dithered,

Please quote where I blamed or criticised johnson or anyone in his govt for procuring vaccines. 

Edited January 30, 2021 by Bluespunk

[kingdong]

5 hours ago, Bluespunk said:

What exactly have I blamed johnson for?

Have got to go out for my corona jab in two hours time,don,t think i,ll have time to go through it all.

[Bluespunk]

Just now, kingdong said:

Have got to go out for my corona jab in two hours time,don,t think i,ll have time to go through it all.

Yeah right, that’s why you can’t. 

[JonnyF]

As a Brexiteer it's really difficult not to be smug when our decision to leave this corrupt protectionist bullyboy club is vindicated so clearly and so quickly.

 

What a disgrace the EU has become. The pandemic has really shown them for what they are. 

 

Trying to bully their way out of their self inflicted mess. Pathetic. I hope the great European nations reject this anti democratic federalist project asap. 

 

[vogie]

And here is the piste de resistance, Owen Jones has said: "The EU is completely and utterly messing up the vaccines. Dire."

Finally the remainers are waking up to the incompetence of the EU.

Edited January 30, 2021 by vogie

[kingdong]

6 minutes ago, Bluespunk said:

Please quote where I blamed or criticised johnson or anyone in his govt for procuring vaccines. 

Who said you did?merely pointed out an instance when boris came up trumps while the eu couldn,t cut the mustard.

[Bluespunk]

Just now, kingdong said:

Who said you did?merely pointed out an instance when boris came up trumps while the eu couldn,t cut the mustard.

Yeah right, sure...

[elliss]

7 hours ago, Sujo said:

Did you miss the part where the rescinded?

 

    What was the deal , offer negotiated ..?

[sammieuk1]

Keep jabbing Boris Macron and Merkel are miffed ???? 

[nauseus]

1 hour ago, david555 said:

O.K. Nauseus , so you would not mind E.U. keep your Pfizer supply in ransom ....just in equality ransom habits ..????? 

 

Not what I meant, which was that we should use any and all leverage available to improve the crappy WA and so-called trade deal. That is no different to what the EU has done before and has just tried to do again.  

[nauseus]

1 hour ago, david555 said:

 (Read the lines maybe 2 times is best ...to understand it correct..., there is no blocking if all is O.K. !) 

 

 

Fri 29 Jan 2021 17.17 GMTLast modified on Fri 29 Jan 2021 19.39 GMT
 

Macron calls for Covid vaccine exports from EU to be controlled
French president bemoans ‘questionable behaviour’ and says deliveries ‘do not honour’ contractual agreements

https://www.theguardian.com/world/2021/jan/29/emmanuel-macron-coronavirus-vaccine-exports-eu-controlled
Kim Willsher in Paris
Fri 29 Jan 2021 17.17 GMTLast modified on Fri 29 Jan 2021 19.39 GMT

Emmanuel Macron has said Europe will not block or ban exports of coronavirus vaccines but that they should be “controlled”, accusing AstraZeneca of a lack of transparency after the British-Swedish pharmaceutical company said it could not fulfil the whole of its contract with the EU.
 

 

He's shouting again.

[Loiner]

15 hours ago, rooster59 said:

Ireland's Prime Minister Micheál Martin expressed concern to EU chief Ursula von der Leyen over the executive's decision.

Sounds like they forgot to ask the Tea Shop what he wanted to do on his border.

[Loiner]

8 hours ago, Sujo said:

Did you miss the part where the rescinded?

Would that be one of those U-Turns? You know, like the adjustments that Boris makes in response to developing situations? Boris bashers and Euros strangely subdued about a massive and embarrassing EU-U-Turn.

[david555]

31 minutes ago, nauseus said:

 

Not what I meant, which was that we should use any and all leverage available to improve the crappy WA and so-called trade deal. That is no different to what the EU has done before and has just tried to do again.  

hmmm....." repairing" after realizing  your keystroke.....????...

[david555]

29 minutes ago, nauseus said:

 

He's shouting again.

not shouting , just getting  attention on lines you don't like , shouting is using big format letters ...

[david555]

Brussels will publish a revised regulation to potentially block vaccine exports out of the EU on Saturday, after an international outcry over its initial plans to erect an export border for doses on the island of Ireland.

 

https://www.theguardian.com/world/2021/jan/30/eu-to-publish-revised-rules-after-covid-vaccine-border-fiasco

Daniel Boffey in Brussels
Sat 30 Jan 2021 13.27 GMT

 

The European commission’s newly drafted implementing regulation is expected to be both unveiled and come into force on Saturday with officials insisting they would now “ensure that the Ireland-Northern Ireland protocol is unaffected”.
 

[vinny41]

26 minutes ago, david555 said:

Brussels will publish a revised regulation to potentially block vaccine exports out of the EU on Saturday, after an international outcry over its initial plans to erect an export border for doses on the island of Ireland.

 

https://www.theguardian.com/world/2021/jan/30/eu-to-publish-revised-rules-after-covid-vaccine-border-fiasco

Daniel Boffey in Brussels
Sat 30 Jan 2021 13.27 GMT

 

The European commission’s newly drafted implementing regulation is expected to be both unveiled and come into force on Saturday with officials insisting they would now “ensure that the Ireland-Northern Ireland protocol is unaffected”.
 

It will be interesting to see how it works when the EU commission works out that in order to produce the vaccine it requires ingredients produced outside the EU.

[david555]

Just now, vinny41 said:

It will be interesting to see how it works when the EU commission works out that in order to produce the vaccine it requires ingredients produced outside the EU.

Time will tell ...., 

[Scott]

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[vinny41]

30 minutes ago, david555 said:

Time will tell ...., 

 EU pledges vaccine controls will not hit UK supplies

Ursula von der Leyen has promised Boris Johnson that future EU controls on vaccines will not disrupt contracted supplies of the Belgian-made

https://www.ft.com/content/93555276-fc30-41cc-8f94-ca968e3622aa

[david555]

4 minutes ago, vinny41 said:

 EU pledges vaccine controls will not hit UK supplies

Ursula von der Leyen has promised Boris Johnson that future EU controls on vaccines will not disrupt contracted supplies of the Belgian-made

https://www.ft.com/content/93555276-fc30-41cc-8f94-ca968e3622aa

i think the underlying reason for those controls is ..... to see all is correct happening  , so as long no Faull play is in game ,those lines you post shall be respected , others i see no reason for those controls ....

[Scott]

Off-topic, troll post removed.

 

[kingdong]

12 hours ago, Bluespunk said:

Yeah right, sure...

I,ll take that as an admission you concede i was right.

[Bluespunk]

46 minutes ago, kingdong said:

I,ll take that as an admission you concede i was right.

And as usual you would be wrong.

 

You cannot find a single post where I criticised johnson or his govt for procuring a vaccine and you know it.

[kingdong]

3 minutes ago, Bluespunk said:

And as usual you would be wrong.

 

You cannot find a single post where I criticised johnson or his govt for procuring a vaccine and you know it.

I never said you did critisise johnson,and pointed this out in an earlier post stop trying to twist out of it,or better still post the alleged post i posted saying you did.