An impressive geopolitical game is being played around the Covid vaccine. This is evidenced by the fervor with which Europe discusses, negotiates, fights, sanctions, to secure agreed deliveries and give new momentum to the vaccination strategy that has left it behind its competitors.
Brussels is working alongside Biden’s America for an alliance, playing a game of bluff with Putin’s Russia for the Sputnik vaccine, and reintroducing (after 32 years, since Tiananmen) sanctions against Xi Jinping’s China. The reasons are varied, but they all converge with the grand vaccine game, which now sees Brussels turning decidedly towards the West, in search of allies.
And yes, up to now, the EU as a Union has authorized the export of about 40 million doses of vaccines to the rest of the world, precisely to 35 countries (“It is part of our European way of life, of who we are, we do not work just for Europe,” said President Ursula Von Leyen), everyone also knows that there have been no exports from the United States and the United Kingdom to the European Union.
