From fairy tale to culture war: Britain gripped by royal race row
9 Mar, 2021 05:00 AM
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By: William Wallis
At the time of Prince Harry and Meghan Markle s wedding in 2018, many commentators seized on signs Britain s royal family was embracing the 21st century. The young prince was marrying a mixed-race, divorcee from America who showed independent spirit like Harry s late mother Diana, the princess of Wales, and who was being welcomed with great fanfare into the royal household. It was as if the exclusivity of royalty and blue blood could be erased with a photo-op, one black British commentator, who asked not to be named, said in hindsight of the hopes the wedding once inspired.
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Covid-19 is the first major test for EU-UK relations. The vaccination race and ensuing competition for contracts and jabs had led to a first major row between the UK and its ex-EU partners.
Following the announcement of the delivery of less vaccines by AstraZeneca, the Commission made the mistake to announce a control of EU exports of vaccines therefore suspending de facto the Northern Ireland protocol. Correcting immediately its mistake, after raising the eyebrows of Germany and France, this diplomatic row highlights the role that the health and vaccination strategies can have on the future of the EU-UK relations. Eventually both partners need each other in the vaccines race but it raises a series of question that our experts will answer in this webinar: