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Speaking from the EU summit in Porto, Portugal, French President Emmanuel Macron urges the United States to end its de facto ban on coronavirus vaccine exports. Macron says that stopping the export ban is "the key to producing vaccines quickly for all poor and middle-income countries". SOUNDBITE
EU chief Ursula von der Leyen threatens to curbs EU exports of Covid-19 vaccines to ensure "reciprocity" with other suppliers. SOUNDBITE
The European Union will prolong the use of its oversight mechanism on coronavirus vaccine exports for another two months says Miriam Garcia Ferrer the bloc's trade spokesperson. SOUNDBITE
Healthcare workers administer polio vaccine drops to Gazan children in Deir el-Balah, as a polio vaccination campaign officially began in the Strip where the United Nations has announced "humanitarian pauses" to allow for large-scale innoculation. IMAGES
The European Commission reprimands France and six other countries for breaching the EU's spending rules. The Executive Vice-President of the European Commission, Valdis Dombrovskis, says "the opening of a deficit-based excessive deficit procedure is warranted" for France as well as Belgium, Italy, Hungary, Malta, Poland and Slovakia. The seven states had deficits -- the shortfall between government revenue and spending -- above three percent of gross domestic product, in violation of the bloc's fiscal rules. SOUNDBITE
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