Just a recap on the vaccine saga. The author is an American journalist, so is non partisan (unless being based in the evil EU makes one partisan):
I keep seeing the line 'EU is having vaccine problems because it was too slow in negotiating contracts' repeated in ??&?? media.
I want to push back on this narrative because I think it's missing where real EU-level mistakes lie. Let's review what happened in past year
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I don't think that this vaccine problem is going to break up the EU at all. It is a trade bloc. People making their living from trade aren't going to be daft enough to forgo the huge advantages that frictionless trade, regulatory standards and advantageous trade deals with the rest of the world give them. Particularly with the dire example of the UK where Brexit has led to the immediate, and likely permanent, collapse of whole industries and countless small businesses.
They'll get through the covid trauma and learn lessons from it.
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