EU and Ireland are making assumptions about UK intentions

Is there any evidence that Covid-19 vaccine doses were being carried across the land border from the Republic to Northern Ireland?

And if so, could the Irish government not have simply asked the UK government for its co-operation is suppressing any unauthorised part of that traffic?

Why do Dublin and Brussels both assume that London is out to steal their vaccines, in the same way that they seem to assume that London would be content to see non-compliant goods being carried across the border in the opposite direction to contaminate the EU single market?

Dr DR Cooper, Maidenhead Berkshire

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