irishtimes said that Taoiseach Micheál Martin has said governments were “blindsided” by the European Commission triggering article 16 of the Northern Ireland protocol in a row over the supply of coronavirus vaccines.
On Friday, Brussels announced plans to use a section of the protocol, which allows for special safeguard measures to be taken by either the UK or EU in exceptional circumstances, to prevent a “backdoor” on its plan to limit shipments of AstraZeneca’s Covid-19 vaccine to Britain.
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