Banshee Bones wrote: ↑Mon Jan 10, 2022 8:23 pm
You mean when the horse realised it had made a horrible mistake and performed a complete u-turn?
How many articles from mainstream press outlets and politicians would I have to post before you'd stop pretending that article 16 was not triggered?
Laughing at Truss, when even she couldnt make a complete balls up like that and then try to pretend it never happened
Skip the "articles from mainstream press outlets and politicians". The politicians have an agenda to push, and the newspaper reports are not necessarily wholly accurate in relation to what was, at the time, a fast-developing story. (You'll often find when you read the newspaper reports carefully that the breathless claims made in the headlines are not actually born out by the detail reported in the story.)
Actual real facts:
1. On 29 January 2021 the Commission
announced that it would introduce a Regulation imposing a ban on the exporting of vaccines without a permit and, in this context, would rely on Art 16 to allow the banning of the export of vaccines to NI.
2. Uproar ensued.
3. Still on 29 January, the Commission modified its proposal. It issued a revised statement saying that it would
not trigger Art 16:
https://ec.europa.eu/commission/pressco ... 314_EN.pdf
4. The Regulation introducing the export ban was published in the Official Journal on 30 January 2021. It did not trigger Art 16, and did not prohibit vaccine exports to NI without a permit. Instead it required exporters to report the number of vaccine doses they exported to NI. Here is a link to a .pdf of the Regulation as published in the Official Journal:
https://eur-lex.europa.eu/legal-content ... LL&from=EN You can read it for yourself instead of having to rely on journalists and politicians to tell you what it says and does.
5. Conclusion: The EU said it was going to trigger Art 16 but, in the event, never did. No Regulation triggering Art 16 was ever adopted. Media reports saying that the EU was triggering Art 16 were mostly issued on 29 January between the Commission's first and second announcements. Later media reports that say the EU did trigger it are simply wrong. Policians who say that the EU triggered Art 16 are mistaken, or are lying.
I am pleased to have been able to clear this up for you. In future, Banshee, when people tell you that the EU triggered Art 16 you can tell them that they are wrong, you can give them the above links to set them right, and you can condescendingly warn them against being so gullible as to accept uncritically what Brexit enthusiasts tell them.