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> 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 leave

> 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.