MEPs fast-track Covid-19 vaccine cert
JAMES COX for BREAKING NEWS.IE
EPs have voted in favour of fast-tracking the approval process for the European Commission proposal for a Covid-19 vaccine certificate (Digital Green Certificate).
MEP Deirdre Clune has welcomed today’s majority vote.
“With all measures to prevent and alleviate the worst impact of the Covid-19 pandemic on the health, wellbeing and prosperity of our citizens, there is no time to waste. Speeding up our work as legislators on issues such as this, when required, should be a priority”, the Fine Gael MEP said.
Summer tourism season
The European Parliament voted to use an urgency procedure for the proposal, but has yet to scrutinise and vote on the actual content of the travel cert. Today’s vote guarantees a timeframe allowing for the certificate to come into force by June — in time for the summer tourism season — if agreed and adopted.
For MEP Clune, the travel cert could positively boost tourism, preparing the way for safer and easier freedom of movement in Europe.
“The Digital Green Certificate or vaccination cert will make travel safer and easier across Europe by providing uniform proof that those travelling has been vaccinated against Covid-19, have tested negative or developed immunity”, said Ms Clune, a member of the Parliament’s Environment and Public Health Committee.
“Today, MEPs backed a faster process for its consideration, but the proposal will still be subject to scrutiny by the Parliament and to agreement of the Member States before it can be adopted. It is also important that it respects our fundamental rights and values, as well as data protection requirements.
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Anti-vax email ‘deluge’ hits European Parliament
MEPs receive thousands of emails aiming to stop introduction of vaccine certificates
NAOMI O’LEARY EU Correspondent
Irish and international members of the European Parliament have been deluged by thousands of emails organised by anti-vaccination and anti-lockdown activists in a bid to stop the introduction of vaccine certificates intended to ease the resumption of travel in the European Union.
The proposed pan-EU digital certificates would show if people have been vaccinated, tested negative or recovered from Covid-19.
Many of the emails are copies of a template text shared online by a network of activists that casts doubt on the safety and efficacy of Covid-19 vaccines and describes the certificate as “the same as imposing travel papers on Jews by the Nazi’s”.
MEPs and their staff described the emails as highly unusual because of their volume, their focus on a procedural vote that would usually not attract much interest and their grounding in misinformation about vaccines and the Covid-19 pandemic.
“It is extremely unusual to have 2-3,000 emails coming in overnight and over the course of a day and a half. I think you really have to ask questions about the algorithms and so on behind it and the ability to generate this,” said Fine Gael’s Frances Fitzgerald, who sits on a disinformation committee in the parliament.
The template letter to MEPs and a list of their email addresses began to go viral on Facebook in Ireland after they were posted by barrister Tracey O’Mahony and shared by Prof Dolores Cahill, formerly of the Irish Freedom Party, both of whom made speeches at an anti-lockdown event in Dublin on St Patrick’s Day.
This followed a similar call to email all EU MEPs and the sharing of a different template letter by Children’s Health Defense, an anti-vaccination group in the United States founded in 2015 by Robert F Kennedy Jr, a nephew of the late US president John F Kennedy and a notorious anti-vaccination campaigner.
The group expanded into Europe last summer when Mr Kennedy was among the speakers at a mass rally of anti-lockdown protesters and conspiracy theorists in Berlin, and it now campaigns on EU issues in English, German, French and Italian. MEPs from across the EU described their inboxes being flooded with similar emails to an extent that disrupted their ability to work.
‘Breach of rights’
“Some of the emails are genuine, others are obviously coming from a centralised distribution system. There’s quite a strong lobby coming from outside the European Union itself,” said Fianna Fáil’s Billy Kelleher.
“There’s a strong anti-vax element to it . . . Some people have views that it’s a breach of fundamental rights in terms of transport and travel, others have views that vaccination hasn’t proved to be successful and it’s all part of a conspiratorial agenda,” he added. “Some of them are quite threatening. They go to strange, appalling comparisons between Jewish people and Germany in the ’30s having to wear the star, it really is bordering on the ugly.”
MEPs vote on Thursday on whether to speed up procedure to allow for debates to be held earlier on a proposal for pan-EU digital certificates that would show if people have been vaccinated, tested negative or recovered from Covid-19.
There is pressure to set up the digital system in time for summer, particularly from a group of tourism-dependent states led by Greece, which hopes it could help ease international travel by allowing some people to skip quarantine or testing requirements.
In Israel, a vaccine certificate system has been introduced to allow people who have received jabs exclusive access to gyms, hotels, theatres and concerts. But the idea is controversial in Europe and opposed as discriminatory by several member states, so the proposed EU version of the scheme would also allow people to demonstrate that they have tested negative or have antibodies as they have recovered from Covid-19, as an alternative to vaccination.
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We’re perfectly aware of the situatedness of the Irish Times, Iata, and said as much in the introduction. The EU has been planning mass vaccination of everybody for a long time.
This is pure evil, pure fascism and exactly what the nazis did or south africa did during apartheid.
Citing the irish times a well known fake news pro-globalist great reset fascist agenda doesn’t really help.
This article is too accomodating almost presenting the EUSSR as a good guy compared to nazi israel.
Reality is, the sabbatians behind the covid scam are the same who pull the chords in Europe.
The EUSSR commission has been planning these ‘passes’ since 2018.
The plandemic was created to achieve this goal among other further goals.
The globalist takeover will stop when we stop them for good.
People must refuse vax, passes, masks, testing. Everything and let the assholes airlines, and other criminal corporations go bankrupt and get on their knees to ask customers to board their shitty cattle transport planes.