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European Union leaders have left the gun of a vaccine export ban on the negotiating table with Britain but they dont want to pull the trigger in case they shoot themselves in the collective foot, writes The Telegraph’s James Crisp. 
“The heads of state and government of the remaining 27 member states held a video summit on Thursday night to discuss stricter export controls on coronavirus vaccines,” he says.
Europe is faced with a third wave of coronavirus, a slow vaccination rate and huge shortfalls of supplies of the AstraZeneca jab.
“Ursula von der Leyen, the European Commission president, hoped for backing for her new tougher rules, which allows Brussels to stop exports to countries, like the UK, with higher vaccination rates than the EU and low exports to it,” he says.
James explains that the European Council was too divided to agree to explicitly support the new rules in their summit conclusions.
Read the full analysis by our Europe Editor, James Crisp, here.