It has not been a great nine weeks for the European Union. Readers both inside and outside the supranational bloc will have been horrified at the dithering, disinformation and mixed messages of the commission and its national leaders, now considering an export ban to stop vaccine orders to the UK being honoured. The French position on the Oxford jab for instance has gone from banning it, to allowing it for just those under the age of 65, to allowing it for all, to banning it and now allowing it only for those over 55. Polling now shows 61 per cent of people in that country think the AstraZeneca vaccine is unsafe.
It all seems to have been rather too much for some of Britain’s most prominent remainers. Flicking through his favourite Euro-loving organ, Mr S stumbled across a leading opinion piece in the New European which verged on the pragmatic.
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