Protectionism as I said the act of seeking to limit imports to "protect" manufacturers of a country i.e. Trump increasing tariffs on Chinese imports.
The EU are seeking to limited exports not imports.
That's not the issue they have is it. It's about the the amount the will received during the whole of Q1 2021 not what they have been delivered up to now.
No the EU are being held back by a lower than expected yield in the bioreactor of an AZ plant in Belgium.
Whatever your opinions on their actions let's try and keep this truthful and not get all faragey about this.
1 thing we can agree on it is a badly worded contract that the lawyers who wrote it up need speaking to.
So anyway the only best intentions clause seems to be on manufacturing the vaccine in the EU.