EU Reopens Brexit Wounds With Irish Border Vaccine Curbs
- Move brings in controls on vaccine exports over Irish border
- Northern Ireland leader calls step incredible act of hostility
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Less than a month after the U.K.’s deal with the European Union took effect, the bloc considered invoking its emergency clause as part of its plan to control the export of Covid-19 vaccines and tempers have flared.
The EU’s action may tamper with one of the most sensitive part of a divorce deal that took 3 1/2 years of painful negotiation: The Irish border. By ushering in temporary export vaccine controls between the EU and Northern Ireland, it would stop doses produced in the bloc arriving in mainland Britain via Belfast.