EU backs down on plan to control export of Covid-19 vaccines across Border into North amid outcry
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Gerry Moriarty from irishtimes said that The EU on Friday abruptly reversed course on a plan to use emergency Brexit measures to put restrictions on exports of Covid-19 vaccines moving from the bloc across the Irish Border into Northern Ireland, after the planned move sent shockwaves through the North, London and Dublin.
In a steep escalation of the EU’s fight to secure vaccine supplies, Brussels had said it would trigger clauses in the Northern Irish Protocol in the EU-UK withdrawal agreement to control shots moving across the open Border between the State and the North. It said this plan aimed to prevent the movement of vaccines onwards into the rest of the UK via a Northern Ireland “backdoor”, while preserving the capacity to allow shipments into the North.
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