Anger as EU forced to reverse ‘almost Trumpian’ decision over Covid vaccine border controls
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- Explainer: what is article 16 of the Northern Ireland protocol?
Northern Ireland’s first minister, Arlene Foster, has urged Boris Johnson to replace the NI protocol after the EU sparked a dispute over vaccine controls.
The EU caused outrage on Friday evening when it invoked article 16 of the post-Brexit mechanism to stop the unimpeded flow of vaccines from the European bloc into the region.
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