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If our generosity only starts once all willing EU-Europeans are vaccinated, other countries and the people who are most in need are in for a long wait

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'Leave Everyone Behind'? – The West's Covid nationalism

Working in the wider area of development and human rights, I often hear the slogan "Leave No One Behind".

It always leaves me uneasy. I am sceptical of moral absolutism, which usually does not survive contact with reality.

But I am surprised at how fast we are moving away from any semblance of equality on the issue of Covid-19 vaccination.

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Michael Meyer-Resende is the executive director of Democracy Reporting International, a non-partisan NGO in Berlin that supports political participation.

If our generosity only starts once all willing EU-Europeans are vaccinated, other countries and the people who are most in need are in for a long wait

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Michael Meyer-Resende is the executive director of Democracy Reporting International, a non-partisan NGO in Berlin that supports political participation.

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