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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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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