Urgent appeal to refuse the “fast-track” procedure for the examination of the draft Regulation relating to the “digital green certificate”
salahuddin costa schreiner
Ladies and Gentlemen, Members of the European Parliament,
Next Thursday morning (March 25, 2021), you will be asked to vote on the examination procedure for the two European Commission draft regulations relating to the “digital green certificate”.
These projects are certainly one of the most defining decisions you will make during your mandate. For this reason, I urge you to reject the option of a “fast-track” examination, as requested by the European Commission.
Indeed, this project of “digital green certificate”, even if it is cleverly presented as a means of exercising our freedom of movement, represents an unprecedented interference with our fundamental freedoms, because it indirectly leads to impose on the vast majority Europeans, healthy and not likely to die from COVID-19, either a vaccine – which nobody knows “if it prevents asymptomatic infection and transmission of the virus”, or even if it protects against the disease over the long term, as one can read it in the preliminary considerations of the draft Regulations – or countless numbers of detection PCR tests, if it is true that this certificate will have to be presented on multiple occasions of our lives (transport, places of culture and education, restaurants, shopping centers, etc.). Reading the draft Regulations also teaches us that people who have already overcome COVID-19 will only be considered immune for a maximum of 180 days, without any explanation being provided on this period, after obtaining a positive PCR test.
The actual state of their immunity, however measurable on the basis of lymphocytes or antibodies circulating in their blood, will therefore not count for anything. Moreover, while no application of “tracing” and “tracking” had been made compulsory until now, this “green certificate”, conceived as an essential sesame, will allow Member States to implement this mandatory control of our least movements and consumption habits, without being possible from now on to oppose it. Thus emerges, with this project of “green certificate”, an apartheid society, where healthy citizens refusing to submit to the hygienic diktat proposed by the Commission and certain Member States, will be discriminated against and ostracized from society.
This is unacceptable.
We expect our MEPs to debate these crucial social issues in depth and to profoundly amend the Commission project, if they do not reject it altogether.
I therefore urgently ask you to take the full measure of the responsibilities conferred to you by your elected mandate, and urge you to reject any hasty examination of these two draft Regulations,
Thanking you for your vigilance,
Please believe, Madam, Sir, in the expression of my respectful greetings,
Salahuddin Costa Schreiner,
Spain