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Between London and the Twenty-Seven, tensions are heightened

2021-03-24T19:43:51.089Z


ANALYSIS - After four and a half years of heated divorce negotiations, it would have been naive to believe that the effective departure of the United Kingdom would usher in a new era of peaceful cooperation with the European Union.


When Boris Johnson, with his jovial smile, speaks of his

"European friends",

the Twenty-Seven stiffen.

We will see it this Thursday at their summit by videoconference - with Joe Biden as a guest star to titillate the

special relationship

between London and Washington - during which they will discuss an embargo on vaccine exports to their former partner of the Union .

It did not take three months after the concrete entry into force of Brexit for relations to escalate into an escalation of mutual mistrust.

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EU threatens to ban vaccine exports to certain countries

Vaccines against Covid crystallize this antagonism with nationalist overtones.

Europeans suspect AstraZeneca, a British-Dutch laboratory, of favoring in its deliveries the United Kingdom, which has paid more for its doses.

A result of

"capitalist greed",

ironically Boris Johnson.

European threats of retaliation are seen across the Channel as a regular aggression on a continent frustrated by its own setbacks in its campaign

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Source: lefigaro

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