President Emmanuel Macron on Friday called on "the Anglo-Saxons" to stop "blocking" the exports of vaccines against the coronavirus.

He wants global "solidarity" to be strengthened in order to better fight the pandemic. 

French President Emmanuel Macron on Friday called on "the Anglo-Saxons" to stop "blocking" exports of vaccines and the ingredients needed to produce them, which would strengthen global vaccine "solidarity".

The French president also repeated that he was "open" to the idea of ​​lifting intellectual property on anti-Covid vaccines, supported by US President Joe Biden.

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"The Anglo-Saxons block a lot"

"For the vaccine to circulate", we must "not block the ingredients and the vaccines themselves," he declared on his arrival at a European summit in Porto.

However, "today, the Anglo-Saxons block many of these ingredients and vaccines. Today, 100% of the vaccines produced in the United States of America go to the American market", he affirmed.

He pointed out that out of 110 million doses produced in Europe, the EU had exported 45 million and kept 65 million.

"We are the most generous in the world today in the camp of the developed countries," he remarked. 

"Open" on the lifting of intellectual property 

In recent months, Emmanuel Macron had estimated on several occasions that the "good debate", "the useful debate", should not first relate to intellectual property but to "the transfer of technology and the mobilization of production capacities" .

He had indicated that he had "no opposition, only doubts about the effectiveness of a possible release of the patents".

This Friday he repeated himself "open to the idea.

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He clarified that the debate on patents should "not kill the remuneration of innovation" and that he was working "completely hand in hand with German Chancellor Angela Merkel and the European Commission on this subject.

"We Europeans have been fighting for the vaccine to be a global public good for a year now, and I am happy that we are being followed," he said.