EU threatens to hold back coronavirus vaccine exports to safeguard its own supply

British Foreign Minister Dominic Raab has warned the European Commission (EC) “the world’s watching” after threats to hold back COVID-19 vaccine shipments.

It comes as EC president Ursula von der Leyen aired her frustrations over a lack of deliveries of the Oxford-AstraZeneca coronavirus vaccine from Britain. 

“We are exporting to countries that are themselves producing vaccines and we think this is an invitation to be open so that we…