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The European Council President this week sparked outrage in Downing Street after he accused the Government of slapping an “outright ban” on drugs giants from sending their jabs abroad. His remarks prompted a high-level intervention from Prime Minister Boris Johnson, who insisted Britain had not blocked any exports and opposes “vaccine nationalism”. Despite this, Mr Michel, the EU’s most senior official, has continued to push his claim that Britain is preventing vaccines from leaving our shores.
“They’re trying to excuse their own woeful performance to their citizens by attempting to smear the UK.”
He added: “It actually reinforces how vulnerable they are by the fact they’re having to make up such outrageous lies to deflect criticism of how they’ve handled the vaccine procurement and rollout.”
Prime Minister Boris Johnson also condemned the outrageous attempts from Brussels to discredit Britain’s roaring vaccines success.
But European Council President Mr Michel was still refusing to apologise for the misleading slur even though officials close to him conceded their boss had got it horribly wrong.
And it came as Brussels threatened a blanket ban on all pharmaceutical firms wanting to send their vaccines outside of the bloc.
Brexit timeline (Image: Express) Rather, citizens registered in the Registry of Italians Residing Abroad (Aire) in England and Wales have more than doubled in the space of seven years.
Following the UK s departure from the bloc, eurosceptism across Italy has grown with many urging Italy to follow Britain and leave the EU.
Earlier this month, Italexit founder Gianluigi Paragone said his party would not support the new Prime Minister Mario Draghi in the upper house of parliament, and added this is the time for Italy to leave the EU.
This comes as Spanish eurosceptics have officially launched a campaign for Spain to have a referendum on its membership of the EU.
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The UK and the European Union were at loggerheads over the Northern Ireland protocol after Brussels unilaterally triggered Article 16 in a bid to prevent the coronavirus vaccine from entering the UK from the nation. Despite the bloc withdrawing the article, Brexit-backing peer Kate Hoey has urged for an immediate amendment of the protocol as she warned Boris Johnson could make the necessary changes to avoid further disruption to trade in Northern Ireland unilaterally. Speaking to the eurosceptic Bruges Group earlier this week, Baroness Hoey said: There are other ways, it doesn t have to