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The EU is currently drafting a law that will allow the government in Brussels to seize private goods in a pandemic emergency.

The EU is currently drafting a law that will allow the government in Brussels to seize private goods in a pandemic emergency.

Joe Biden issued a formal reprimand to Boris Johnson for not rolling over to the EU on the issue of its continued power over Northern Ireland

UK So Confident on Vax Supply, Will Start to Stockpile for 2022 2 Feb 2021 The United Kingdom has reportedly become the first country so secure in its coronavirus vaccination strategy, that it is already planning to stockpile doses for 2022. Meanwhile, the European Union remains far behind even in its inoculation programme for 2021. European media admitted in the last week that Brexit Britain’s initiative had laid the ground for “vaccination success”, with more than 13 per cent of the pop...

Vaccines: Brexit Britain Willing to Help Bail Out Failing EU 31 Jan 2021 The British government is willing to “move on” from the European Union’s aborted effort to impose a hard border between EU Ireland and British Northern Ireland and help Brussels overcome its vaccine failures. Britain has far outperformed the European Union on vaccines after opting out joint procurement — a decision heavily criticised by EU loyalists and some supposed health experts when it was made — with the blo...

Germany Looking for a Way to Kick-Start Slow Vaccine Rollout 1 Feb 2021 BERLIN (AP) – Chancellor Angela Merkel and German state governors were planning to talk Monday with representatives of the pharmaceutical industry on ways to beef up the country’s sluggish vaccination campaign. Monday’s videoconference, which also will involve the European Union’s Executive Commission, comes as finger-pointing in the bloc’s most populous country mounts over who is to blame for the slow vaccine rol...

31 Jan 2021 The World Health Organization (WHO) has asked Britain to pause vaccinations once at-risk groups are inoculated, so doses can be “fairly distributed” overseas. Despite a near-consensus among liberal media and health experts that Britain’s decision to opt-out of the European Union’s vaccine programme and manage its own situation would be a disaster, the island nation has in fact managed to approve vaccines, secure orders, and begin mass vaccinations long before the 27-nation b...

Vaccine Rollout Chaotic in Hyper-Diverse Paris Suburbs 30 Jan 2021 SAINT-DENIS, France (AP) – Samia Dridi, who was born, raised and works as a nurse in Saint-Denis, fears for her impoverished town, recalling how the coronavirus cut an especially deadly path through the diverse area north of Paris, a burial place for French kings entombed in a majestic basilica. Dridi and her sister accompanied their frail 92-year-old Algerian-born mother to a vaccination center for the first of two shots to p...