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Re:AstraZeneca/EU contract by alastor2020 on Friday January 29, 2021 @02:17PM (#25961152)
It's different though surely? UK had an exclusivity agreement with a private company (AZ). EU had their own agreement. There is now a contractual dispute between EU and AZ. In retaliation, EU wants to use export controls to prevent another EU company (Pfizer) honouring its legal civil contract with the UK. This is trade war sort of stuff. EU should go to court with AZ to settle the dispute. The UK isn't a party here.
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Re:AstraZeneca/EU contract by Scarblac on Friday January 29, 2021 @02:36PM (#25961375)
No, the EU wants to stop exporting to the UK from Belgium, as they have already done,as long as they are behind on the agreed EU schedule.
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Re:AstraZeneca/EU contract by makomk on Friday January 29, 2021 @05:06PM (#25963328)
An exclusivity agreement for, as I understand it, a production line that the UK basically paid to set up in exchange for that exclusivity. Which seems like a pretty normal commercial arrangement.
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