“Crucial step towards more resilient and health-secure future” – or “really chilling”?
Portugal is to join four other European countries in piloting a European Vaccination Card from September.
According to Vaccinestoday.eu, the card “aims to empower individuals by consolidating all their vaccination data in one easily accessible location”.
It is the brainchild of the EUVABECO project, of which Portugal is a partner alongside Sweden, France, Belgium, Germany, Greece, Latvia, Luxembourg and Poland. But, for the purposes of the pilot, only Latvia, Greece, Belgium, Germany and Portugal are involved.
Introducing the reasons for the project, Vaccinestoday says: “As Europe transitions from emergency measures to long-term COVID-19 management, there is a critical opportunity to strengthen resilience and increase preparedness for future health threats”.
Thus, the European Vaccination Card (EVC), aims to “empower individuals by consolidating all their vaccination data in one easily accessible location. It will be available in various formats, including printed cards, mailed copies, and digital versions for smartphones.
The EVC will revolutionise vaccination management and ensure a healthier future for all Europeans, says the article. “This citizen-centred method of storing and sharing data, rather than relying solely on public health systems, was made possible by the Global Digital Health Certification Network (GDHCN).
“Developed during the COVID-19 pandemic for the EU Digital COVID Certificate, the GDHCN is now managed by the World Health Organization, enabling the authenticity of digital vaccination records to be ensured.
“EUVABECO’s pilot projects aim to pave the way for other countries by harmonising vaccine terminology, developing a common syntax, ensuring adaptability across different healthcare settings, and refining EVC implementation plans.
“These plans will be publicly released in 2026, extending the EVC system beyond the pilot phases and enabling broad adoption across all EU Member States.
“In addition to the EVC, EUVABECO is creating plans for several other innovative tools: a clinical decision system that provides vaccination recommendations, a screening tool to identify and invite vulnerable populations, an electronic Product Information Leaflet (e-PIL) to enable the transfer of vaccines across countries without having to repackage them, and a modeling and forecasting tool to assess the impact of public health interventions.
“By leveraging the lessons learned from the COVID-19 pandemic and fostering innovation in vaccination management, Europe is taking crucial steps toward a more resilient and health-secure future.
“For more information about the EUVABECO project, visit the project website”.
The Resident visited the website, and sent an email to ask how this pilot starting in a month’s time will be rolled out*.
But in the meantime, the picture of a more health-secure future has not gone down well in some quarters. The US ‘Defender’ – a website focused on the defence of children’s health – heard from various medical experts who suggest the EVC poses “a direct threat to personal and health freedom and national sovereignty”.
Dr David Bell, a public health physician, biotech consultant and former director of Global Health Technologies at Intellectual Ventures Global Good Fund,, said: “The proposed vaccination card reflects an increasing effort to utilize public health tools as a means to concentrate wealth and provide a means to control populations. It is very reminiscent of approaches in parts of Europe pre-World War II, and essentially serves a similar purpose: to exclude individuals who do not follow government instructions from society.
“The trial in Europe is an obvious next step after the recent widening of surveillance under the IHR (International Health Regulation] amendments), which greatly increase the likelihood of recurrent lockdowns to enable mandated vaccination as a way to force mass use, and profit-making, from vaccines.
Dutch attorney Meike Terhorst has also criticised the pilot, calling a digital vaccination passport a “direct threat to our freedom and also the sovereignty of any state.”
Catherine Austin Fitts, founder and publisher of the Solari Report and former U.S. assistant secretary of Housing and Urban Development, said plans for the EVC represent “another step toward asserting control of labour and travel, with a goal to controlling resources and assets.”
“The goal is financial control. There is no legitimate public health purpose”, she said. “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”.
These experts also tied the rollout of the EVC to warnings from government and health officials about the “next pandemic,” potentially caused by the bird flu or a still-unknown “Disease X.”
According to Fitts: “Many steps are underway to prepare for a bird flu pandemic. Chicken is the most significant source of meat protein. So far in response to the current bird flu claims, I am told by experts who follow bird flu claims that 99 million birds have been killed in the U.S. and 500 million worldwide. Bird flu vaccines have been shipped to Europe. A vaccine card can be used to try to pressure or force people to take another unnecessary injection”.
French science journalist and author Xavier Bazin told The Defender, “for the time being, a vaccination card in Europe is meant to ensure that most children get their vaccination.” He believes the next step is to try to mandate the measles, mumps and rubella (MMR) vaccine across Europe.
“Even if they do not succeed with MMR, this kind of card will be perfect when the next ‘pandemic’ hits and they want to mandate an emergency vaccine, like they did with COVID,” Bazin said. “The WHO and other agencies are clear in their intent to link compliance with centralized health dictates with the ability of people to go about their daily life. Whilst directly against post-WWII conventions, including the Universal Declaration of Human Rights and the spirit of the Nuremberg Declaration, they have the backing of major international agencies and the corporate interests that have become enmeshed with them over the past two decades”.
All the experts talking to the The Defender stressed plans for the EVC have been in the works even before the COVID-19 pandemic.
“The digital vaccination passport is a technical means to override personal freedoms, such as the right to say no to a vaccination,” stressed Terhorst.
*The response to our email came back to say “to provide clarification we have added a new Q&A entry to our website: Is the European Vaccination Card (EVC) voluntary for citizens? https://euvabeco.eu/questions-answers/is-the-european-vaccination-card-evc-voluntary-for-citizens/.We hope this resource provides the information you need”.
And the answer is: “Yes. Both our pilot projects and the European Vaccination Card (EVC) have been designed to be entirely voluntary for citizens.
“The EVC is a digital version of a paper-based vaccination card, allowing individuals to own and manage their vaccination data. It does not use a centralized data storage system. For other people to be able to access the citizen’s data, the citizen must intentionally send their data or show their EVC to someone else”.
Source material: Vaccinestoday.eu/ euvabeco.eu/ the defender
