Ursula von der Leyen, president of the European Commission, has said that if Covid vaccine supplies in Europe do not improve, the EU “will reflect whether exports to countries who have higher vaccination rates than us are still proportionate”. Post-Brexit disagreements between the EU and the UK have been heightened by the diplomatic row over the export of the vaccines. The European Council president, Charles Michel, claimed last week that the UK had imposed an “outright ban” on the export of vaccines and their components – there is no ban though, and his claim was dismissed by the government as “completely false”. But Mrs von der Leyen says the EU is still waiting for exports from the UK, and it wants reciprocity.(BBC)…[+]