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Re:BioNTech alone could lift German economy by 0.5% this year by blibble on Tuesday August 10, 2021 @04:59PM (#28134432)
> 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-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

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Re:BioNTech alone could lift German economy by 0.5% this year by jopsen on Friday August 13, 2021 @03:02AM (#28166276)
> 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.

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