The digital certificate system would cease to operate when the WHO declares an end to the Covid-19 pandemic.
Last week, a Polish member of the European Parliament, Dominik Tarczynski of the governing Law and Justice (PiS) Party, delivered a rousing speech. In it, he excoriated the EU for its ongoing attempts to bully Poland into accepting left liberal decrees that have nothing whatsoever to do with the concept of a voluntary union based […]
“We will submit a legislative proposal in March.”
The WHO is against the measure, for now.
The Irish government has made clear the Covid vaccines will not be fully rolled-out before September, and that no significant removal of pandemic restrictions will happen until that is done. In the meantime significant sectors of the economy will remain shut. On top of that, the pandemic assistance payments (necessary to maintain public support for […]
“Endless Russophobia”, she says, stalks the halls of the European Parliament in Brussels. More on that in a moment. But first, watch the whole thing, and pay close attention to what she says about Putin’s recently imprisoned political foe, Alexei Navalny: Is Navalny, as she says, a “vicious, anti-immigrant, racist”? Well, on the […]
On October 7th, last year, the Irish Times delivered its damning verdict on the British Government’s handling of Covid-19. “Fantasy as Policy”, it pronounced. “What is clear”, the paper said, “is that the British prime minister has not lost his capacity for nonsense – his speech was full of Churchillian bluster and exceptionalism about the […]
After a long string of humiliations regarding vaccine supply, and then political chaos following the erection of a customs border on the island of Ireland, the EU has now desperately attempted to back-track by revoking Article 16. But is this really enough for the bloc to save face? The past few years have not been […]
Patrick Murphy, CEO of the Irish South and West Fish Producers, says that Ireland’s fish are being given away for the benefit of Europe. #gript
One of the main advantages, we’re always told, of European Union membership, is that it affords Irish people the right to travel to and live freely in 26 other European countries. No passport checks, no immigration requirements, no papers – just hop on a plane, land in Vienna or Rome or Bucharest, and you’re as […]
At the eleventh hour, the British negotiating team pulled a rabbit from the hat in their negotiations with the European Union. A key victory long desired by Brexiteers and Eurosceptics: a concession on fisheries. The EU would agree that EU Fishing boats would give Britain back 25% of fish caught in its waters over the […]
Naturally, the announcement prior to Christmas that the Pfizer BioNTech and Moderna Covid vaccines were good to go came as a great relief to people who at last could see an end to the “new normal.” However, as Gary Kavanagh pointed out on this platform here, the initial optimism has been tempered, with many questioning […]