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10.08: "..unfortunately in some countries you cannot keep your job without a Digital Green Certificate. You cannot enter public building without DGC. You cannot enter a shop without the DGC.
We are facing, now, on the contrary, more and more evidence, in practice and more and more scientific research and evidence, that people carrying DGC can indeed infect other people. DGC is a license to spread and infect. Unfortunately DGC gives a false sense of security that you see, is completely illogical. It's non-scientific and it must be abandoned.
I fully support the staff of the European Parliament in their positions, the positions of non-discrimination, non-segregation, the freedom to come to the workplace. This is their workplace, along with us, the MPs. The implementation of proportional and adequate sanitary measures. The vaccine not being compulsory..."
11:11: "..free and informed consent, as my colleague said, which are prescribed with various international documents, from Aviator(?) convention; Nuremberg called(?); resolutions of Council of Europe. We have Council of Europe right there, a few meters from this parliament building.
Free and informed consent. A right, which belongs to individual freedoms, to decide whether or not to say yes or no to a medical act of any kind; medical treatment of any kind. A message to the staff is simple, you're not alone; and fight for your rights and we are fighting along with you. Thank you.
11:53: ..Thank you Ivan.
I want to quote something precisely, from the regulation that was voted a few months ago, that imposed, all across Europe, this Green Certificate. The paragraph 46 of that regulation states the following and I quote: 'These regulations respect the fundamental rights and observes the principles recognized in particular by the chapter, the Charter of Fundamental Rights, including the right to respect for private life and for family life; the right to the protection of personal data; the right to equality before the law and non-discrimination; the right to free movement; and the right to an effective remedy.'
Member states should comply with the charter, when implementing this regulation. This is why it was stated, in this regulation, and this is why we was voted, and what was agreed out of the trial. Well if we look now, a few months after this Green Certificate was imposed
in the European Union, we don't, we see EXACTLY THE OPPOSITE. All these rights, that allegedly, were supposed to be protected by this regulation, are actually violated right now. People cannot work anymore; and they live under the threat, of losing their jobs and their livelihoods, if they are not having this certificate.
I have a colleague here from Ether. We have about a million and a few hundred thousand Romanians in Italy. Many more Polish. Many more Bulgarians; and other people from Eastern Europe. They are all citizens of this European Union with equal rights. I have to tell you then in the past few weeks, I'm bombarded with petitions, from people in Italy, from people in France, from people in Spain, concerned - that they will be losing their jobs if they don't have this green certificate.
The problem is many of these people already had Covid-19. They have proved that they have the antibodies; the natural antibodies, and nobody cares. They are forced to do, or to be exposed for example, or to take a medical product, that for various reasons, they don't want to take it. If they don't do it, they will lose their jobs! So our concern is, is this the type of European Union, that we want to build, that we want to accept? Is this the European Union as it stated in the city of the European Union, that this union is a space of freedom? Do we still have that freedom anymore or not?
So I was, you know, we were some of the people I would say that raised these concerns, during the debates in the Plenary, when this
Green Certificate was debated. At that point, our voice was among in a minority and it's proven by the vote. The problem now is, more and more people in Europe, are affected by the decision made even by this house.
You've seen the protest in Italy and in many other countries. Unbelievably I'm coming from a former Communist countries, from a Communist country, we haven't had a protest for liberty since the fall of Communism. Out of the blue we see people around Romania, and we've seen, you know, interestingly enough, in Spain and Italy and in many other countries, fighting for freedom, for liberty. They're not fighting for higher pensions, for higher salaries, or for any of these other rights. They simply fight for the basic human right - of being free. To decide implicitly what they want to do with their body.
So, this issue was raised by us, it's proven by the records of the parliament. Now it's affecting a lot of people, a lot of our citizens. Now the problem is, that it's affecting all of us here; and it's threatening the parliamentarian democracy even of this house. Because if we will not be allowed to enter this house, unless we have a Green Certificate - we will not be able to - do our job here. But along with us, it's our assistance and our staff members. I have to tell you that, us, and many others of us, were contacted, 'anonymously' you know, or 'off the record' I would say, by many of the staff members, who are deeply concerned.
People that work for this house for decades; they have a family, they have mortgages, crediting banks; and they now, they live with this threat, the sooner than later, if they don't have this Green Certificate, they will be losing the job. But they haven't done anything wrong. This is the, this is the absurd situation. Many of them already went through these insane illness, that killed so many people. They have proved that they developed a natural immunity; and for some reason, unknown reason, illogical reason, non-medically proven reason, they will be faced with losing their jobs, unless they have a Green Certificate.
It is not fair to them. It is not fair to the citizens, of this union and it's not fair to all of us. You know we were elected here to represent our citizens. We have our assistants you know who, are helping, us to serve our citizens, but nevertheless, there are thousands of people, working for the parliament, for the commission, for the council. Without them, we will not be able to do our jobs. They are the unknown people that are actually carrying this, this, everything that we do here and everything that we have here.
And just to stress, to come to work every day, to be threatened, to be afraid, that you might lose your job, because you don't have, a certificate, that is not certifying anything. Because clearly if you are vaccinated, you can get Covid and you can spread the virus. I mean it's proven already; and if you have a negative test, that is just proving that at the moment when you got the test, you were negative. But it doesn't mean when you leave the office, or the testing place, you might not get infected and infect other people.
Interestingly enough, in the parliament, this is the absurd situation, we all agree, that if you have proven of natural immunity, you should be allowed to travel free. They remove that from the regulation, so now healthy people, healthy people, CANNOT exercise their basic fundamental right. So an idea that's, or a regulation that started with the idea in mind, to facilitate, freedom of movement, now it's a, tool I would say, use, to condition your right to work your right to eat, your right to travel, your right to personal life and many other things.
So the reason why, we, had this press conference, is to express through our voices, the concerns of us, the concerns of our staff members and nevertheless, the concerns of hundreds and maybe thousands of people, that are working in the parliament, in the council and many other European institutions.
We are here for you, and we will fight for you." |