Thu Nov 4, 2021 – 2:35 pm EDT
STRASBOURG, France (LifeSiteNews) – Four members of European Parliament have joined forces to defend the rights of European citizens against the digital COVID passport.
Members of the European Parliament (MEPs) Kristian Anderson, Francesca Donato, Ivan Sincic, and Cristian Terhes spoke at an October 20 press conference called “Defending fundamental rights by opposing the misuse of Digital Green Certificate.” There the four politicians protested the violation of the fundamental rights of European Union [EU] citizens by the imposition of the European vaccine passport, or “green pass.”
“We have a really terrible situation in Europe today because human rights are not respected,” said Donato, an MEP from Italy.
The press conference took place among rising concerns that MEPs and parliament staff soon may be unable to access the European parliament without a green pass, as Romanian MEP Cristian Terhes explained at the beginning of the conference.
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During her speech, Francesca Donato referred extensively to Europe’s charter of fundamental rights.
“We have the European Charter of Human Rights, which has the full value of a treaty and should be taken into account by all national governments while writing their laws, but in fact, it’s [been] obliterated,” she said.
Donato noted that the COVID certificate was originally introduced to “facilitate movement between member states and with the purpose of avoiding any discrimination against non-vaccinated people.”
However, this is not how the green pass was implemented in many EU member states, including in Italy, as Donato observed.
“The Italian government and other governments have introduced a compulsory COVID certificate for every [type of]
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