Europe

As Europe’s vaccination efforts are finally ramping up, we speak to the German MEP Peter Liese, who’s also a medical doctor. Is this the turning point for Europe’s vaccination programme?

Christophe Hansen is a Luxembourg MEP who sits on both the European Parliament’s advisory group on vaccines and its committee on international trade.

Boris Johnson has warned European leaders that they could scare companies away from investing if they impose blockades on vaccine exports.

Véronique Trillet-Lenoir is a doctor and French MEP from President Macron’s party. She has been a member of the Committee on the Environment, Public Health and Food Safety. Anthony Browne is Conservative MP for South Cambridgeshire, where AstraZeneca has its headquarters.

The European Union has threatened to stop Covid vaccine exports to the UK unless the continent gets its “fair share”. Yet at the very moment that Europe complains that AstraZeneca has not kept its promises, 16 EU countries are not using the vaccines they have, amid concerns about blood clots.

The EU’s medicines regulator has said that the Oxford-AstraZeneca vaccine should continue to be used because its benefits far outweigh its risks. A final ruling is expected on Thursday, but the European Medicines Agency has been alarmed that at least 12 European nations have suspended the use of the vaccine after a small number of…

The EU chief Ursula von der Leyen has admitted that Europe has made mistakes over its vaccine strategy, amid criticism of the slow rollout across the continent.

Earlier we spoke to Sinn Fein’s Michelle O’Neill – the deputy First Minister of Northern Ireland. 

It took only a few hours for the announcement to be withdrawn but the damage was done within the UK and the Republic of Ireland united in condemnation.

Fishing was supposed to be a major upside of Brexit, but parts of the industry are finding themselves in crisis. 

 Boris Johnson and the European Commision chief Ursula von der Leyen have been speaking by phone tonight to “discuss the state of play in the Brexit negotiations”.

Boris Johnson will travel to Brussels tomorrow for direct talks with the European Commission president, Ursula Von der Leyen.  

For businesses, it’s all a waiting game. Meanwhile, the uncertainty continues. 

We were joined by the French MEP and former French minister for European affairs, Nathalie Loiseau.

“The conditions for finalising an agreement are not there” – that’s the conclusion of the latest high-level phone call between Boris Johnson and the European Commission president, Ursula von der Leyen.