The President of the European Council, Charles Michel, said on Thursday 6 May that the heads of state and government would discuss the lifting of patents on Covid-19 vaccines at the Social Summit in Porto on 7-8 May.
“The EU supports the ‘third way’ led by World Trade Organization (WTO) Director General Ngozi Okonjo-Iweala to provide vaccines to the world”, he said on Twitter. He was referring to the WTO Director General’s position that there is a trade-off between lifting...