‘It’s About Your Money’: New EU Vaccination Card Will Be Used to Control Access to Banking, Other Services

Dutch attorney Meike Terhorst joined “The Defender In-Depth” this week to discuss the EU’s plans for a European Vaccination Card, the plan’s similarities to the EU’s digital vaccination certificate, the global push toward digital ID and implications for health and medical freedom.

by Michael Nevradakis, Ph.D.

AUGUST 8, 2024

Dutch attorney Meike Terhorst joined “The Defender In-Depth” this week to discuss the European Union’s (EU) plans for a European Vaccination Card (EVC), the plan’s similarities to the EU’s Digital COVID Certificate, the global push toward digital ID and implications for health and medical freedom.

The EU, which pioneered the development of digital “vaccine passports,” will next month launch a test run of its new EVC in five countries — Belgium, Germany, Greece, Latvia and Portugal.

The card purports to “foster informed decision-making on vaccination, and improve continuity of care across the EU” and “aims to empower individuals by consolidating all their vaccination data in one easily accessible location.”

While the objectives of the program, set to be implemented throughout the EU by 2026, appear benign, critics argue the EVC is a stepping stone for mandatory vaccinations in the future.

Some also argue the EVC is connected to large financial interests and plans to limit personal and national sovereignty.

‘The plan is to get everybody vaccinated’

For Terhorst, efforts to launch the EVC are, at their root, “about digital ID.”

“You get a digital ID where all your vaccination records are stored … All your personal details are stored in one place, and you can move it easily from one country to another without having to redo or reapply … So basically, it’s about a digital ID, and then a link from your personal ID to your medical records on vaccination,” she said.

Terhorst said that while the idea of having one’s medical records easily accessible and transferrable sounds benign, “The plan is to get everybody vaccinated and to kind of overrule constitutional rights.”

“It was very clear that the object was that anybody within the EU could not say no to … vaccination,” Terhorst said.

According to Terhorst, this contravenes the Charter of Fundamental Rights of the European Union, which in Chapter 1, Article 3 — “Right to the integrity of the person” — encapsulates the key tenets of the Nuremberg Declaration.

This includes a requirement for “the free and informed consent of the person concerned” in relation to medical procedures, and “the prohibition on making the human body and its parts as such a source of financial gain.”

EVC a continuation of EU ‘vaccine passport’

Terhorst said that the EVC and the EU’s digital vaccination certificate are “presented as different programs,” with the EVC being “rebranded as something completely different and completely new” — even though they are both based on “the same software,” she said.

“They’ve been working on it for years and years and years. And it works perfect, and it’s all linked together like the banking infrastructure, the personal medical records, insurance, everything links into each other,” Terhorst said.

The EVC is based on the World Health Organization’s (WHO) Global Digital Health Certification Network, which the EU and WHO co-launched in June 2023 to promote a global interoperable digital vaccine passport, based on the EU’s digital health certificate.

Noting that plans for the EVC were launched in 2018, before the COVID-19 pandemic, Terhorst said, “This plan is not new. It has been in the making for a very long time.”

Terhorst said the EVC threatens to usurp personal and national sovereignty.

“There was a digital roadmap for a digital passport. So basically, the EU is trying to become a kind of country or federal state that has the capacity to issue a passport to all the EU citizens,” she said.

Terhorst also connected the plans to launch the EVC with the amendments to the WHO’s International Health Regulations, passed in June at the World Health Assembly.

The amendments contain articles that “allow states to enforce medication on anybody during a crisis or emergency or pandemic,” she said. “It doesn’t say that it has to be done, but it gives this permission.”

Terhorst also connected plans for the EVC with efforts in other countries to enact new pandemic preparedness plans. She cited the example of New Zealand, which last month published an interim update to its national Pandemic Plan and which was expanded to cover “respiratory-type pathogens of pandemic potential.”

Terhorst also cited the example of Queen Máxima of the Netherlands, who at this year’s meeting of the World Economic Forum (WEF) in January, said that digital ID is “very necessary” for the provision of a range of public services — and suggested it can be used to track the unvaccinated.

Digital ID “is very necessary for financial services, but not only. It is also good for school enrollment, it is also good for health — who actually got a vaccination or not,” Queen Máxima said.

“There was very intense pressure put on us to get vaccinated,” Terhorst said, referring to her experience in the Netherlands. “And then knowing that it didn’t stop transmission, why was it so important? I think still we don’t know everything, but we have to keep on digging and fighting for the truth to come out to really know why it was so important.”

Will vaccines be mandated in Europe?

Terhorst cited as one example the recent release of the “RKI Files” in Germany, named after the country’s Robert Koch Institute — the German equivalent of the U.S. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention. The files indicated that political objectives — not science — guided pandemic decision-making in Germany.

According to Terhorst, the files made it “very clear that it was a scam — the whole COVID-19 lockdown, all the measures, closing schools, etc., didn’t have a scientific basis. And so, all the measures were based on political decisions and not on science, although the public was told that it was all based on science.”

The release of the files was significant, Terhorst said, because Germany is not just one of the five countries set to trial the EVC, but is also Europe’s economic leader and the home country of scandal-ridden European Commission President Ursula von der Leyen. The European Commission is the EU’s executive branch.

“Germany has played a very important role in the COVID-19 period,” Terhors said. “And of course, von der Leyen is German, and she is the head of the European Commission … She is very much in favor of vaccination, and so, she will push as much as she can to let this digital vaccination passport be a success, and even, I think, to try to force people to get vaccinated.”

Terhorst cited vaccine-related scandals and legal challenges implicating von der Leyen. Last month, the European Court of Justice ruled that the European Commission’s decision to heavily redact key portions of COVID-19 vaccine contracts with pharmaceutical companies during the pandemic violated the commission’s transparency obligations.

‘A direct threat for every citizen’

Terhorst said prominent financial interests are behind the public health rhetoric promoting initiatives such as the EVC.

She referenced recent remarks by Catherine Austin Fitts, founder and publisher of the Solari Report and former U.S. assistant secretary of Housing and Urban Development, who told The Defender the EVC represents “another step toward asserting control of labor and travel, with a goal to controlling resources and assets.”

“The goal is financial control,” Fitts said. “There is no legitimate public health purpose. The central bankers are hiding behind a health narrative — policies like lockdown are a way to manage inflation and resource demand when monetary policy is highly inflationary.”

“It’s one big conglomerate which is ruling the world, and it’s this conglomerate which wants a change of the financial system,” Terhorst said. “And the change they want to have is that they can decide how much money you have in your own bank account with the CBDC,” central bank digital currency.

“So basically, and this is I think very important for everybody to realize, it’s not about health, it’s about your money,” Terhorst said. “They want to make you into a kind of minion as somebody who’s not having real rights.”

“What the politic is moving towards — it’s much more towards a government or a political system where you have no rights and also you have no ownership and you have no right to say no,” Terhorst added.

Noting that influential organizations such as the WEF and the Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation have supported efforts to develop digital ID and digital vaccine passports, Terhorst said “Such an accumulation of power … is just incredible and it’s a direct threat for every citizen.”

“The threat is that anybody objecting to vaccination, especially when there will be a new crisis [like] we’ve seen with COVID-19, then … perhaps your bank could say, well, then you cannot have access to your bank account,” Terhorst said, citing Canadian banks who froze the accounts of participants in the 2022 Freedom Convoy.

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