Ursula von der Leyen, the President of the European Commission, knows exactly how to dose her words.
And so it was no coincidence that she took up clear words on Wednesday: “All options are on the table;
we are in the crisis of the century, ”said the politician.
The EU could stop the export of vaccine doses in the future, especially if the countries concerned produce vaccine doses themselves but do not export them.
It is a clear announcement that the EU no longer wants to see millions of doses of vaccine being exported from Europe to all over the world every month while Europeans wait for their vaccination appointments.
The message is aimed primarily at Great Britain and the USA, where vaccines are manufactured but which do not leave the two countries.
Von der Leyen explicitly named Great Britain, which imports more vaccine doses from the European continent than any other country.
It is the highest escalation level to date in the vaccine dispute between the EU and Great Britain.