Our friends at the European Council have decided it prudent to extend their digital injection certificate until June 2023 at which point we can expect another extension.
The Permanent Representatives Committee (Coreper) formally endorsed the Council’s negotiating mandate with the European Parliament to extend the Regulation establishing the EU Digital COVID Certificate.
www.consilium.europa.eu
The Council wins the Doublespeak Award for the day. Why exactly are they extending this invasive and oppressive measure?
The Digital COVID Certificate has played an important role in facilitating the free movement of people during the pandemic. And the principle of gradually lifting travel restrictions if the epidemiological situation so permits still applies.
Coming soon to a supranational agglomerated mega-state near you - greater freedom of movement. That's right - the rulers' constant surveillance of you will grant you greater freedom of movement! I haven't been to an EU country in several years, but it seemed to me that movement was pretty free before all of this nonsense. Come to think of it, what exactly was inhibiting freedom of movement?
But I guess one ought to submit to digital tracking in order to secure their freedom. Makes perfect sense.
I also enjoyed reading about the idea that lifting travel restrictions is a "principle" as if it were some abstract or hypothetical construct which is clearly how it's intended here. So in fact you're submitting to this tyranny to advance the "principle" of free movement which, as they clearly spell out, may or may not happen as opposed to the actual freedom of movement.
And while they were at it, the Council (presumably also in the name of freedom), also amended the European Commission's proposal as follows:
the possibility for Member States to request proof of identity and a vaccination or recovery certificate has been introduced in order to be able to include all doses in a vaccination certificate, regardless of the place of vaccination. This possibility would make it easier for Member States to fulfil their obligation to issue a valid vaccination certificate, regardless of the place of vaccination
In Eurasia, surveillance is freedom and Big Brother will be sure to advance technology to the point that all information related to your medical treatments can be consolidated in one handy dandy digital location. Sounds like a bold step towards a veritable utopia of individual liberty.
It's interesting to consider this and other measures in the context of Articles 1,2,3,4,6,7,8,12,20,21 of the EU's Charter of Fundamental Rights.
The civil, political, social and economic rights recognised by the European Union are listed in the Charter of Fundamental Rights.
www.citizensinformation.ie
Article 3 is quite a quite a laugher:
In the fields of medicine and biology, the following must be respected in particular: a. the free and informed consent of the person concerned ... b. the prohibition on making the human body... a source of financial gain
Oh well, I guess the days of respecting constitutions and charters are long behind us in Eurasia, Eastasia, and Oceania.