Free-trading Eurocrats want to avoid protectionism but are facing strong political headwinds.

"Not long ago, the COVID-19 vaccine was still a 'public good,'" said Bernd Lange, chair of the European Parliament's trade committee. "Now the fight for it has well and truly begun."

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