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The European Commission president has just brought an end to the tiresome idea that female leaders are better in a crisis. After getting into a row with drugmakers following a shortage of Covid-19 vaccine doses, she then had to make a mortifying U-turn over a rushed attempt to restrict some vaccine exports that left even her supporters flabbergasted.

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