European Union leaders will hold a video conference today to discuss the worsening Covid-19 situation across Europe, as well as the European Commission's move to restrict exports of vaccines in an attempt to improve the security of supply for European citizens.
Taoiseach Micheál Martin will join a number of other leaders in rejecting any export restrictions because of the risk of an escalating vaccine trade war.
Any exports will be subject to new criteria related to the country that has ordered the vaccines. The commission says the export could be reviewed if the country already has a high proportion of its population vaccinated, if the coronavirus situation there is not grave, and if the country has not permitted vaccine exports back to