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Despite fact-checkers insisting the claim was false, 62 per cent of Britons think Brexit helped the nation’s Coronavirus vaccine rollout.

Turkey strongly rejected accusations that it snubbed one of the EU´s most powerful executives because of her gender.

European Commission President Ursula von der Leyen and European Council President Charles Michel met with Turkish President Recept Tayyip Erdogan to discuss migration and thaw recent rocky relations.

The European Union has backed down from approving measures that could ban vaccine exports under contract to the United Kingdom after member states feared the reciprocal loss of components needed to produce their own doses.

BRUSSELS (AP) – A leading European Union official has lashed out at the AstraZeneca vaccine company for its massive shortfall in producing doses for the 27-nation bloc, and threatened that any shots produced by them in the EU could be forced to stay there.

The United Kingdom will have “no choice” but to block deliveries coronavirus vaccine raw materials to the European Union if the bloc follows through with its threats to ban the export of vaccines promised to Britain, a senior government official told a British newspaper.

The European Union may block the export of up to 19 million doses of the AstraZeneca coronavirus vaccine, as the bloc continues to struggle to innoculate its population.

Europe’s floundering commission has threatened they will use emergency powers to seize shipments of vaccines if it doesn’t get its own way.

The EU has threatened to blockade more supplies of coronavirus vaccines, as the bloc continues to fall behind other major western powers.

The CEO of an American data privacy firm said that it will be impossible for governments to keep personal health data private when they introduce coronavirus vaccine passports and that such a system could lead to “algorithmic discrimination”. In an

The European Commission plans to ask the United States to allow the export of millions of U.S.-made doses of the coronavirus vaccine developed by AstraZeneca and Oxford University to the bloc — somewhat ironically, given its approval of Italy seizing EU-made AstraZeneca doses bound for Australia.

Australia’s finance minister has suggested that a “desperate” European Union is “tear[ing] up the rule book” after the European Commission backed Italy’s request to block a shipment of coronavirus vaccines.

The European Commission has reportedly authorised the Italian government to block a shipment of AstraZeneca vaccines destined for Australia, using for the first time an export control system the EU created if it deemed a drugs company had failed to deliver its orders to the European Union.

The majority of Germans have said that the European Union has mishandled the rollout of vaccines — a shock result for citizens from the historically pro-EU member state.

The EU will introduce legislation to introduce a vaccine passport this month, EU President Ursula von der Leyen announced on Monday.

Angela Merkel claimed that there is a unanimous agreement within the European Union on implementing a coronavirus vaccine passport system.

European Union parliamentarian Guy Verhofstadt has admitted that the bloc’s vaccine rollout has been “a fiasco”, and that Ursula von der Leyen’s leadership has potentially “ruined” relations with the United Kingdom. In a video entitled: “the inconvenient truth behind the

The UK has overtaken the EU in the total number of people given a vaccination against coronavirus, despite having a sixth of the population. 

European Commission President Ursula von der Leyen has admitted that the European Union was at fault for the delays to rolling out vaccines to European citizens, after last week acknowledging that countries acting alone, like Britain, are “speedboats” compared to

Ursula von der Leyen has claimed that vaccine development is being treated like a Soviet-era “space race” fueled by confrontational mindsets.

SAINT-HERBLAIN, France (AP) – French pharmaceutical startup Valneva had big news in September: a government contract for 60 million doses of its coronavirus vaccine candidate. The buyer? The United Kingdom.

After weeks of trying to apportion blame elsewhere and even threatening British drugs supplies, the head of the European Commission has admitted to the European Union’s vaccine failures.

Reform UK leader Nigel Farage has said that the European Commission’s disastrous handling of the bloc’s vaccination programme marks “the beginning of the end of the European Union as we know it”.

The EU is haemorrhaging goodwill over its handling of the corona vaccine, as pro-Brussels outlets line up to criticise the bloc’s leadership.

After struggling to apportion blame for the bloc’s disastrous inoculation programme on drugs company AstraZeneca, Ursula von der Leyen has now taken to claiming that the EU should be proud of being so far behind the United Kingdom, implying that Brexit Britain had compromised on safety to become the Western world’s first to approve a vaccine for the Chinese coronavirus.

The German media has continued to criticise the EU’s handling of its vaccine programme, headed by the country’s former defence minister, with an editor from Germany’s largest-selling newspaper calling it the “biggest confidence-destroying programme in its history”.

The European Union, which used the border between British Northern Ireland and the EU’s Republic of Ireland as an all-important bargaining chip in the Brexit talks, broke the rules it demanded for the province and introduced a hard border in an attempt to remedy its vaccine failures. 

European Commission President Ursula von der Leyen demanded on Friday that AstraZeneca vaccines made at UK plants be sent to the EU to make up for a shortfall in production on the Continent. Hours later, Brussels also authorised banning exports of the medication to non-EU countries.

At the World Economic Forum’s (WEF) virtual Davos Agenda summit on Tuesday, French President Emmanuel Macron declared that in the wake of the Chinese coronavirus modern capitalism “can no longer work”. Appearing before a question and answer session conducted with

European Commission President Ursula von der Leyen said that with the inauguration of Joe Biden, Europe once again has “a friend in the White House”. Speaking before the European Parliament on Wednesday morning, the EU Commission boss hailed the prospect

The Brexit negotiations between the United Kingdom and the EU concluded on Christmas Eve with both sides claiming victory in the talks.

British Prime Minister Boris Johnson is engaged in intense “hotline” talks with his European counterparts, amid claims a Brexit deal could be struck within hours —  a deal Brexit leader Nigel Farage has warned could be a betrayal of the British interest.

Ursula von der Leyen said “there is a path to an agreement now”, revealingthe UK had apparently agreed to be bound in several key areas.

Germany’s Angela Merkel has rejected Boris Johnson’s pleas for face-to-face talks to help secure an 11th-hour Brexit deal, with a source saying she is “determined to make Britain crawl across broken glass” for an agreement.

The British and European Union negotiating teams have agreed to push back the latest in a long line of “final” deadlines for a Brexit deal to be done yet again, with both European Commission president Ursula von der Leyen and British prime minister Boris Johnson pledging to “go the extra mile”. 

Europe followed up “11th-hour” talks with threats to refuse UK air, road, and rail traffic unless the country agrees to submit to EU rules.