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Kiev: Ukraine, as well as Georgia and Moldova, want to join the EU (Photo: Marco Fieber)

EU vaccine-sharing could have 'strategic' value

The EU should share corona-vaccines with former Soviet countries on its eastern flank, according to 13 foreign ministers from member states in the region.

"We believe that our borders will not be safe if we do not extend our support to our immediate neighbours. Our Eastern Partners have on numerous occasions expressed their appreciation for the EU's Covid-related assistance and pleaded for facilitated access to the vaccine," the ministers said in a letter to the European Commission on ...

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