EU gives itself power to block vaccine shipments to Australia

The European Union has introduced tighter rules on exports of COVID-19 vaccines that could hit shipments to nations including Australia, amid a deepening dispute with drug manufacturers Pfizer and AstraZeneca over supplies of potentially lifesaving shots.

Minister for Veterans Affairs and Defence Personnel Darren Chester told the ABC representations would be made to the World Health Organisation to ensure vaccine shipments to Australia remained on track."But I've had reassurances from colleagues and I understand Greg Hunt as minister is making all the responsible moves you need to make to ensure that supply is available to us."

The measure could be used to block shipments to many non-EU countries and ensure that any exporting company based in the EU will first have to submit their plans to national authorities.A contract agreed to last year by the European Commission and the drugmaker allowed the EU's member countries to buy 300 million doses of the AstraZeneca vaccine, with an option for a further 100 million doses.

EU to block vaccines to Australia. Perhaps Britain was right in pursuing Brexit. The EU has become a victim of its own self interest and will alienate itself from the rest of the world.

Australia busy Engineering Infections

Maybe Australia could help Europe with vaccine when production here ramps up ? It would look good on our CV ?

It’s high time the world boycotted EU

Why haven't we moved forward and implemented long term quarintine measures that allow partnersapart to reunite & strandedAussies to come home. Waiting om the vaccines is not the only thing we should be doing grant300 exemptionsPMV300 ScottMorrisonMP AlexHawkeMp

Please do 😏

They've done a great job containing the virus over there so far 😂. Let them experiment on their own first. We've got this. We just need to stop importing the virus in. This includes the non citizens coming to our country to work here. Yes it's true.

So when ScottMorrisonMP says 'Let me be clear, Australia makes our rules for things you can do in Australia. That's done in our Parliament,' thinks that that is reasonable. But when the EU decides what happens in the EU, that's wrong?

I believe they can block shipments to many countries with Australia being one. If it’s a needs based distribution process its fair in my opinion. We are very lucky

Just give us the recipe and we can make our own

When shit happens, who is your friend?

Such a united global community

Good 🤣 fck that shit. Get sum vitamin B 🤡🤡🤡

I was under the impression that CSL were under license & contracted by the Aus gov to produce 50 million doses so let the EU be greedy bastards we’ll make our own !

The ugly face of the EU ..

just spent 2 days reading harrowing testimony of vaccine death and injury, fellow Australians you've been brilliant at following advice and doing the right thing and you make me proud but holy crap this thing is not a vaccine it is something else altogether ABC is not our friend

ISDS clauses on it, may them pay a premium

Excellent!! Many Australians will be saved.

Willing to wait as other vaccines coming and we are currently in a reasonable position (hope that stays that way). EU throwing its power around is a wee bit scary and sad. 😕🤨

Don't worry US will save Australia. Just buy more weapons from them.

Doesn't Australia give itself the power to block trades?

Brexit making sense

Really .

Personally I have no issue with this and I’ll go a step further and say we should actually be one of the last countries to receive it as it should go in order of importance and need. We are way down the list there.

WOW. Without us, they would be singing happy birthday to the fuhrur and this is the thanks we get for saving their asses in 2 world wars!

Australia is doing well so we might as well hang back and find out more about the vaccines before we have them as there are bound to be more findings once a much larger group has received them

We'll have our own soon.🤞🤞

I gave myself power to block the EU.

Morrison has been given another out🤔

Time we put a lot more money into making Aus. self sufficient in vaccine development. We could sell it to other countries.

Shouldn't matter ScottyFromMarketing reckons were front of the que! Could be another lie but surely one announcement he made is legitimate?

REASON why all this alliance thingy is rubbish. Time for Aus to take non alignment policies like Switzerland.

Don’t we have the capability to produce our own? CSL should be able to do it and I’m sure there are other facilities too.

Go for India. It’s a vaccine powerhouse.

It's a shame our local clamping tech vaccine wasn't looked at more thoroughly... Sure, people falsely tested HIV positive - but there's different kinds of HIV tests - but, surely a person getting diagnosed would undertake extra testing anyway?

Why all the angst about a 'vaccine' that doesn't really work, to protect against a viral-flu, which has virtually disappeared? Why did WHO change the definition of 'herd immunity' to infer that vaccines$ are essential? scamdemic Plandemic

Canada and Uk has a bunch to spare, Aus won't need the EU half working vaccines if this happens. That's on advantage of the commonwealth!

Now we're really going to see tribalism.

Dictatorship.

There is no emergency in Australia. Vaccines need to go to the most in need.

Thought EU was not happy about Uncle Trump’s America First policy.

They are doing a big favour to Australia , the want europeans to die first from the vaccine 😂😂

Europe is hypocrites. Australia should not rely on any of its ally. Be independent.

Good news!!!....EU can block all the vaccines if it wants....would be the most welcome and beneficial effort in this entire health fiasco!

Ugly.

We better place an order with China

I can see why Britain wanted to leave that lot, let the union decay.

Time to apply trade restrictions on EU. Cancel the French Submarine contract auspol ScottMorrisonMP

I remember that one time in January where our health officials backed the locally produced vaccine to ensure supply, even though it has a lower efficacy. Nice job health officials!

Isn't globalisation awesome🙄

...yes, and block unvaccinated FIFO business types etc. from coming here via the maverick aviation industry.

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