The European Union’s parliament has voted to extend the bloc’s regime of COVID passes until 2023 despite harsh criticism from some elected representatives.
by Euronews, officials within the union appear adamant that the pandemic is not over and that an extension of the lockdown well into next year is “reasonable”, with MEPs voting 432 to 130 to extend the measure.
This is despite protests from some MEPs, one of whom has described the parliament deciding to back extending the measure as “absolutely despicable”. “It is absolutely despicable that MEPs would not stand up to protect and defend the natural human rights of people to speak, move and make decisions on their own bodily autonomy,” Romanian MEP Cristian Terhes told Breitbart Europe.
“The Digital Covid Certificate was unnecessary from the start and eventually dangerous as it gave people a false confidence regarding an infection of relatively low medical risk,” he continued. “This Chinafication of Europe policy must draw to a close very quickly,” he went on to say, having also emphasised that people should stop voting for political parties who support the COVID pass, the extension of which now only needs to be approved by the European Council in order to come into force.