As leaders across the world continue to struggle against a tide of lockdown weary citizens looking for a return to normality, the EU is backpeddling from invoking article 16 of the Brexit Deal and a group of internet shareholders confound wallstreet we hear what our leaders have to say:
Boris Johnson gives cautious hope to travel firms and holiday makers
Speaking during a visit to Batley, West Yorkshire prime minster Boris Johnson has said ‘’I don't want to give too much concrete by way of dates for our summer holidays. I am optimistic - I understand the reasons for being optimistic - but some things have got to go right.
"The vaccine programme has got to continue to be successful.’’
With restrictions on travel being tightened over the past week it seems a lot will have to change for holiday makers to summer abroad but as Health Secretary Matt Hancock predicted there is a chance for "a happy and free Great British summer".
The EU back peddles on moves to ensure vaccine supply
Article 16 of the Brexit deal is meant to avoid any hard border across Ireland, preserving the peace that has lasted since the Good Friday Agreement. The EU in an attempt to make sure that covid-19 vaccines are not being exported from the bloc, decided to invoke article 16 of the NI protocol which allows the EU or UK to unilaterally suspend aspects of its operations if either side considers that aspect to be causing “economic, societal or environmental difficulties. It was swiftly condemned by all sides and rethought, to which Ursula von der Layen’s spokesperson said:
‘’Only the Pope is infallible - Mistakes can happen along the way, the important thing is you recognise them early on – in this case so early that it was before the decision was finalised – and you correct them.”
https://order-order.com/2021/02/01/watch-eu-explains-article-16-move-mistakes-happen/
Wallstreet fights with the retail investor as Founder looks on
Gary Kusin, who cofounded GameStop in the 1980s, said the frenzy over the stock is "a little bit of an honor" that investors targeted the company for its short-squeeze attempt. "I'm much more a spectator than I am participant," he added. "I just grabbed some popcorn’’
