The European Commission (EC) first declared export controls for the Vaccines sent to Northern Ireland from COVID-19 - contrary to the Brexit Agreement. Just after a few hours, the decision was canceled, and then reports appeared in the media that the European Commissioner for Trade in Valdis Dombrovskis was to blame. This is written by POLITICO / RUS.LSM.LV edition.
The European Commission on Friday announced that for the supply of COVID vaccines from the EU to Northern Ireland, companies will have to receive special permits. Earlier, the Brexit negotiation with great difficulty was decided to leave the customs border between the EU in EU Ireland and the British Northern Ireland open. And in London, and in Dublin, notification of the introduction of customs control at the border caused bewilderment. After a few hours, the EU announced that "vaccine checks" will not be on the border.
The entire incident Bloomberg agency called "humiliating" for the EU, and the British Daily Mail reported it in an article under the title, which contains a statement: the head of the European Commission of Ursula von der Lyien "threw up the bus" (literally) of his deputy Valdis Dombrovskis. Both Bloomberg, and Daily Mail reported that von Lyien believes the guilty of the emergence of an ill-conceived solution, which had to be answered, the Executive Vice President of the EC and the EU Commissioner on the trade in Valdis Dombrovskis.
"I can tell you that one bureau is headed by this process - this is the executive vice-president of Valdis Dombrovskis, because he is responsible for trade," the Bloomberg quotes the official representative of the European Commission Erica Mater. - This is regulation - the area of responsibility of Mr. Dombrovskis and his office, and, of course, the divisions of the Commission that reported to him. "
Later, the Marer told his comment in Bloomberg that his comment was turned on: he "simply noted that the Directorate General for Trade wrote an initial proposal that significantly expanded over the week, while there were discussions between services and cabinets, and this led to the inclusion of Article 16 [ About the border with Ireland] ".
The specialists who spoke Politico noted that Dombrovskis was obviously not the one who insisted on export control. But in the same time, Germany was pressed on him, and the broth der Lyien.
"Rule number one for any leader: if your organization was wrong, in no case blame my team publicly," Alexander Stubba quotes Daily Mail, Ex-Prime Minister Finland, who claimed the head of the European Commission.