Posted on 03/19/2023 9:47:58 AM PDT by rktman
A European Parliament vote for bloc-wide digital IDs is the latest step towards the “Chinafication of Europe”, an MEP has claimed.
Cristian Terhes, a Member of the European Parliament (MEP) for the Christian Democratic National Peasants’ Party, has described the European Union’s latest push for cross-border digital IDs as another move towards the “Chinafication” of the bloc.
Although bureaucrats in Brussels have insisted that the measure is in the interests of average citizens, the parliament’s vote to see digital IDs adopted appears to be one of the latest attempts by EU institutions to pull power away from member-states’ national governments.
According to a report by Euractiv, the vote to see negotiations for a European Digital Identity Framework (eID) to go forward was approved by the bloc’s parliament on Thursday — though the publication describes the process as a mere formality.
Romana Jerkovic, the parliament’s rapporteur for the digital ID programme, heralded its approval of the plans, claiming that they will enable individual EU citizens to have “full control over their own data” while accessing facilities across the bloc.
Such a claim has been heavily disputed by Terhes, however, who instead sees the measure as a dangerous erosion of the rights of those living within the European Union.
“The loss of our freedoms and liberties to the Big State is normally done incrementally, but the passing of the eID Wallet is a big step towards the Chinafication of Europe,” the parliamentarian told Breitbart Europe, repeatedly warning that the measure could give authorities China-like oversight over people’s private lives.
“This Digital Wallet will allow the EU and national authorities (like the Chinese Communist Party) to have technical tools so they can know what the people are doing and to impose control,” Terhes said.
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It's already here, and without the vote. Starts April 1, fully implemented by July.
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How convenient, you will be able to receive your daily ration at the government food bank just by scanning your chip.
Nothing good comes out of the EU. Nothing. They are a miserably failed state.
A few years ago a high up Democrat appointee in Obama’s Administration publicly stated that the goal was to have border checks between the states, that you had to have a passport to travel between the states.
Watching the news now is like reading a John Brunner novel.
Notably The Shockwave Rider published in 1975.
Yep, Soviet-Style internal passports, if you want to move to a new city, you have to get approval.
—> How convenient, you will be able to receive your daily ration at the government food bank just by scanning your chip.
IF you obey!
Virtue signal and obey any you qualify for an additional 6 crickets each week!
The whole concept of the European “ Union “ was to centralize power into the hands of socialist, bureaucratic masters.
Why was Hungary the only country to figure it out?
Basically The Third Reich sans Gas Chambers.
I’ll bet the people who were enthusiastic about forming the European Union never thought it would come to this - the EU turning into a totalitarian dictatorship.
Government always goes in one direction, and not the other. It inevitably marches in the direction of incremental control of the populace, which it takes increasingly for stupid sheep. Unfortunately, the public IS a bunch of stupid sheep and willingly votes for the party that gives them more benefits, thus guaranteeing that the future will be fascist.
Without gas chambers......YET! Of course with banning gas ovens folks will have to be fried by solar mills and wind panels.
a modern instant payment solution - a scanning mark on the hand or in the forehead; what could be simpler?
Instead of ‘Ash Wednesday’ on the forehead, we will have ‘Ass Eternity’ written on our souls.
666
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