... most notably its weaknesses in mustering a coordinated response to the global economic downturn
Synchronicity is an ever present reality for those who have eyes to see.
Carl Jung
The multiplicity of country models of dealing with the pandemic, the “vaccine competition”, the breaking up of global value chains and their nationalization and regionalization all point in the direction of greater localization and self-sufficiency. At the same time there is a need from greater synchronicity across countries ...
... funded by British private industry and the Russian government. International rivalry can evolve and grow into cooperation when the incentive is there. In the last year there has been a new ‘space race’ between scientists keen to develop the first Covid-19 vaccine, with Russia even naming its vaccine after
Sputnik
, the first satellite, which translates as ‘fellow traveller’. The message has never been more relevant.
If the world is to succeed in combatting the coronavirus pandemic and similar future ...
... AstraZeneca has plenty of orders from countries outside Europe, with the second-biggest deal struck with the U.S. Similarly, Pfizer has also managed to close multiple deals with non-EU countries, including the U.S. and China.
With a more deadly variant of COVID-19, known as the B117 type, in the background, as well as immunisation program’s setbacks and critically low supplies of available vaccines, many European countries were forced to cancel or
delay
first dose injections to make sure that those already-vaccinated get their second jab within an appropriate timeframe.
Brussels, on its own part, decided on 29 January 2021 to push for ...
