https://www.thesun.co.uk/news/14400027/pfizer-warns-eu-threa...
Block AZ in the EU, you'll force the populist Johnson into tit-for-tat retaliation - and we'll all go to hell in a hand-cart.
Block AZ in the EU, you'll force the populist Johnson into tit-for-tat retaliation - and we'll all go to hell in a hand-cart.
At best banning those exports would just harm the production of surplus vaccines/exports. It would be the UK crippling their own supply of vaccines - which they have received 10 million so far from Pfizer made in Belgium.
I also would point out: Boris, aka mini-trump. Populists would not let such a challenge go without reply.
Good luck if you think the report is completely wrong.
Also the frame wouldn't make any sense:
The EU will be controlling exports of AZ vaccine to enforce a company fulfill their contractual obligations (which they have failed completely, several times), and the UK would stop exporting a component for Pfizer? For what? To let it spoil and ruin a UK business that invested and ramped up production to have their production stalled? To hurt their own vaccine supply?
I really don't see it.
I'm sure they are not completely dependent on UK supplies, but by the sounds of it, it will cause them some issues.
Either way, I very much doubt that's a card that UK wish to play.
>The Pfizer/BioNTech vaccine recently announced contracts with the Germany-based companies Evonik and Merck KGaA to dramatically scale up the supply of lipids.
>However, in a recent conference call with industry leaders and German politicians including Angela Merkel, the chancellor, Sierk Poetting, the BioNTech chief operating officer, warned that lipids supply remained the key bottleneck facing production of the Pfizer vaccine and said it would take up to eight months to boost production.
Basically the UK would be hurting mostly themselves.
Or that this deal doesn't exist? https://www.business-live.co.uk/manufacturing/croda-covid-va...