Simon Carswell from irishtimes said that Outside observers were left stunned as the EU’s attempt to fix one crisis – the control of Covid-19 vaccines – last week created another, namely an eruption of fresh political tensions over Brexit.
Friday’s move has caused astonishment because, after years of wrangling over how to keep the Border open after the UK left the EU, Brussels bureaucrats missed the politically charged significance of potentially triggering a part of the Brexit treaty that could create a hard border in Ireland in an attempt to control vaccines within the bloc.
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