The Telegraph reports today that the PM has rejected a move by Health officials to maintain membership of the EU Early Warning and Response System (EWRS). They were attempting to use Covid-19 as leverage to continue some measure of EU management and control of the UK's health response capacity. We are quite right to reject such Trojan Horse attempts.
Inevitably, such subserviences are unnecessary. We don't need Europol because we're members of Interpol. Interpol allows co-operation in criminal investigation and enforcement between sovereign nations; Europol is the federal police agency of the EU. Big difference.
As with the EWRS. We continue to be part of the health 'Interpol', the WHO, which co-ordinates information sharing, warning dissemination and international funding and assistance. WHO also publishes the international daily case tally for Covid-19. If you want a European perspective, you can look at the EU's ECDPC site. They're not so stupid to publish only the WHO's figures for EU nations or to exclude the UK from lists of emergency contacts and laboratory resources - a virus knows no borders, and European doctors and medical authorities are also quite capable of co-operating with each other without the controlling hand of the EU.
Here is the daily update for 1st March - excluding the 13 new cases yesterday for the UK
| EU/EEA, the UK, San Marino, Monaco and Switzerland | ||
| Cases | Deaths | |
| Italy | 1128 | 29 |
| Germany | 111 | 0 |
| France | 100 | 2 |
| Spain | 66 | 0 |
| United Kingdom | 23 | 0 |
| Switzerland | 18 | 0 |
| Norway | 15 | 0 |
| Sweden | 13 | 0 |
| Austria | 10 | 0 |
| Netherlands | 7 | 0 |
| Greece | 7 | 0 |
| Croatia | 5 | 0 |
| Romania | 3 | 0 |
| Denmark | 3 | 0 |
| Finland | 3 | 0 |
| Estonia | 1 | 0 |
| Monaco | 1 | 0 |
| Iceland | 1 | 0 |
| Luxembourg | 1 | 0 |
| Ireland | 1 | 0 |
| Belgium | 1 | 0 |
| San Marino | 1 | 0 |
| Lithuania | 1 | 0 |
| Total | 1520 | 31 |
9 comments:
It looks like the EU has planned for Italy to take the bulk of the casualties again.
Either it is good planning or their research is crap, as with so many EU statistics, they are not believable.
They're WHO statistics.
Oh yes, I didn't register that... Apols.
Mind you, I reckon that the UN is in reality the EU writ large... Very large.
The EU are, like the British Government, very good at creating 'new' laws, rules and regulations to cover EXISTING laws and rules that independent States already have or have 'international' access to.
This demonstrates the EU's ability to create bureaucracy out of nothing and extend their pen-pushing and control where they want.
When it comes to simplification (as 'should' be required during the Brexit process) they create all sorts of complications, excuses and distractions to hide the true simplicity of a breakaway and the current fishery debacle is a good example.
The EU can simply purchase a LICENCE to fish in British waters.
What's so difficult about that?
Raed's example vis a vis the WHO is another.
The European Union institutions have neither the powers nor the capacity to direct public health measures in the member nations. They are sovereign matters.
It seem as if you would prefer that they were not, so that you could blame them for any failings.
However, you cannot, quite simply.
You mean all these highly paid Commission staff sitting on the ECDPC management board are there fraudulently? That they're making decisions ultra vires? Well blow me ...
Martin Seychell
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member, Deputy Director General for Health responsible for Directorates B and C, Directorate General for Health and Food Safety
John F Ryan
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member, Director Directorate C “Public Health, country knowledge, crisis management”, Directorate General for Health and Food Safety
Barbara Kerstiens
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member, Head of Unit “Combatting Diseases”, Directorate General for Research and Innovation
Isabel de la Mata Barranco
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Principal Adviser for Health and Crisis Management, Directorate General for Health and Food Safety
Wolfgang Philipp
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Acting Head of Unit, “Crisis management and preparedness in health”
Karim Berkouk
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Deputy Head of Unit “Combatting Diseases”, Directorate General for Research and Innovation
No, they co-ordinate research and offer advice, usually very good.
They cannot compel any member country to do very much though, because the reach of the Lisbon Treaty is limited.
It seems as if you wish that they could?
With the virus affecting international supply chains, can anybody advise on sourcing magnifying glasses to distribute with the forecast for growth in trade from the forthcoming GB-USA Trade Deal?
Asking for Liz Truss.
Anon 18:30: why? Will it be written in tiny font?
Interesting back with SARS the ECDC was merely a dream, a babe; the 'epidemic' it's springboard to blossoming.
https://www.thelancet.com/journals/lancet/article/PIIS0140-6736(03)13317-X/fulltext
In 2015 its 10 year anniversary:
https://www.ecdc.europa.eu/en/ecdc-10-years-event
ECDC works in close collaboration the European Commission, the EFSA, the EMA, the EEA, the EMCDDA...any wonder we're taxed so much with such labyrinthine custers of agencies all stuffed to the gills with - no doubt - highly paid talking heads who spend most of their time in all expenses paid meetings with other clusters all separate from national bodies doing exactly the same thing. Like the UN, I bet 75% could be polled with no adverse effects.
...IMHO
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