Posted on 06/28/2022 11:35:02 AM PDT by Jan_Sobieski
Acting on a proposal of the European Commission, the European Parliament, as expected, voted yesterday to renew the EU Digital Covid Certificate for another year. The vote was 453 for, 119 against and 19 abstentions.
The certificate regulation had been scheduled to expire on June 30. Earlier this month, a delegation from the parliament had already reached a “political agreement” with the Commission on renewing the certificate, thus making yesterday’s vote virtually a foregone conclusion.
The certificate regulation was originally adopted in June of last year, ostensibly to facilitate “safe travel” between EU member states. But the EU digital certificate quickly evolved into the model and sometimes infrastructure for the domestic “health” or Covid passes that would serve to restrict access to many other areas of social life over the following year.
The EU has opted to extend the covid certificate despite the overwhelmingly negative results of a public consultation on the subject that was launched by the European Commission under the heading of “Have Your Say” and that was open to the public from February 3 to April 8. The consultation elicited over 385,000 responses – almost all of which appear to be opposed to renewal…
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The never ending boot of socialism.
Continuing proof, as if it were needed, that CoupFlu has NEVER been about public health anywhere on the planet.
It’ll end if and when we go back to dumb voting machines.
I had to get one (a QR code) from the Spanish Ministry of Health for my trip. I’m not what they consider “fully vaccinated,” and I won’t be, thank you. So I had to get a negative test within a certain period before flying and then get the sacred QR code to show them.
This is not good for the EU tourism business and I don’t know what these crazy governments are thinking of. It’s all for show anyway, but who are they showing off for?
As if the government gives a rat’s *ss what the people think or want.
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