BRUSSELS (AP) — The leaders of the European Union and the United Kingdom went head-to-head in an angry exchange over vaccine exports as relations between the recently separated sides took another diplomatic dip. After London summoned the EU envoy to explain comments by EU Council President Charles Michel that Britain had issued a vaccine export ban, British Prime Minister Boris Johnson told the House of Commons that it was his “wish to correct the suggestion from the European Council president that the UK has blocked vaccine exports.” The spat comes against a background that the COVID-19 vaccination drive in Britain is seen as a huge success while that in the 27-nation bloc has been a major failure.
