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> no, it thought it had control over the situation and started virtue signalling... As I understood it, the US had laws necessary to administratively enact exp

by jopsen 5y ago

> no, it thought it had control over the situation and started virtue signalling... As I understood it, the US had laws necessary to administratively enact export restrictions during emergencies. I suspect the EU didn't have the same leaver it could just magically pull. Some individual countries might, but that's no use when production is distributed across the EU. Unlike the US the EU doesn't have disasters management agencies, many things are left for individual countries. Generally, there is no administrative authority in the EU that can really do much -- where as the US president can take a lot of actions. The EU would like have had to draft laws stopping exports, and those could be challenged in courts, etc. More likely, the EU just didn't have an easy button to push, and nobody has agreed upfront on which cases such button should be used.

blibble 5y ago
> As I understood it, the US had laws necessary to administratively enact export restrictions during emergencies. > I suspect the EU didn't have the same leaver it could just magically pull. it was given these powers after it was obvious it had lost control of the situation: https://www.independent.ie/business/brexit/eu-gets-new-powers-to-block-vaccine-exports-40234311.html https://www.independent.ie/business/brexit/eu-gets-new-power... then it attempted to use the new powers against the UK this backfired badly: if it had been enacted it would have created a border across Ireland, when the EU had spent the previous 5 years arguing that a border of exactly this type could never be created any circumstances at which point it was forced politically to withdraw the measures
- jopsen 5y ago
  > it was given these powers after it was obvious it had lost control of the situation... > this backfired badly: if it had been enacted it would have created a border across Ireland... Yeah, creating such measures overnight probably wouldn't workout well. Had consistent and thought-out policy existed upfront maybe it would have been a different story. Of course Brexit probably would have ruined many such plans with factories distributed throughout EU and UK.

by jopsen 5y ago

blibble 5y ago

> As I understood it, the US had laws necessary to administratively enact export restrictions during emergencies. > I suspect the EU didn't have the same leaver it could just magically pull. it was given these powers after it was obvious it had lost control of the situation: https://www.independent.ie/business/brexit/eu-gets-new-powers-to-block-vaccine-exports-40234311.html https://www.independent.ie/business/brexit/eu-gets-new-power... then it attempted to use the new powers against the UK this backfired badly: if it had been enacted it would have created a border across Ireland, when the EU had spent the previous 5 years arguing that a border of exactly this type could never be created any circumstances at which point it was forced politically to withdraw the measures

jopsen 5y ago
> it was given these powers after it was obvious it had lost control of the situation... > this backfired badly: if it had been enacted it would have created a border across Ireland... Yeah, creating such measures overnight probably wouldn't workout well. Had consistent and thought-out policy existed upfront maybe it would have been a different story. Of course Brexit probably would have ruined many such plans with factories distributed throughout EU and UK.