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The European HomeParliaments are a project on citizen participation across several member states by the pro-European citizen movement Pulse of Europe
The participants consult high-ranking politicians from the European Parliament such as Manfred Weber, Katarina Barley, Gwendoline Delbos-Corfield, and many more. Members of the European Parliament from six countries and five political parties are waiting for the citizens' votes.
This is at stake:
Many Europeans long to return to everyday life: being able to meet friends and family again without restrictions. Compared to us, some countries are already much closer to this dream. That’s why we want EU citizens to have a say in the EU’s handling of the pandemic. Therefore, the topic for this round of European HomeParliaments is, should the EU represent European interests more decisively in future pandemic crises?
How it works:
A European HomeParliament is a private discussion with 4 to 8 participants. To participate, you can either join an existing group or invite friends, family, etc. to create a European HomeParliament yourself. After the discussions, the participants vote on the issues, thus stating their opinion. Pulse of Europe eventually prepares a report from the results, which consults the participating politicians.
The participating politicians will respond in webinars to the results.
You will find more information on the project here: http://homeparliaments.eu/en
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I can only prove that the format of the European House Parliaments is ideally suited to strengthen our common European citizenship and democracy and to live in lively debate! As Europeans, we need more such opportunities to finally, finally, turn Europe and the European Union into what is the only reasonable way to achieve a good future for all of us: a European Parliamentary Republic!
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I do not accept a vaccine passport, nor do I accept any fundamental rights and discrimination. Finland needs to leave the European Union!
Do you move, do you travel what experience you have with COVID-19 and its variants? Why not accept a vaccine passport? What should it be for you to accept? It’s a chance to make a difference! I see it as a way to develop safer mobility, regardless of whether or not we are a member of the EU.
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Overall the EU handled the pandemic awfully i think by not breaking up the patents of big companies, and by the austerity being put on its memberState during the last financial crisis. In the end the EU is not found for the people but for the big money. The EU not dismantling the patents is just another sad of that, you know the EU in the curd when they are Parrot the same arguments of tax eVADER Bill Gates.
Quite poignant, I would go into further detail and contemplate how that particular knot with "big money" lies within the interests of each member state of the Council. Each member state has its traditional continuation of partnership between politics and for-profit interests. Any threat to the latter for example in Ireland in the form of fair taxation causes great upset over potential capital flight. The foundation of the EU is a playground for free trade afterall, and we should transform it into a body that serves people, not business (unless businesses practice workplace democracy)
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This pandemic has shown that a more uniform response is neeved, it’s clear that countries on their own don’t seem to be able to agree when to go in lockdown and cleared don’t listen to the experts and doctors. Europe should have ordered the lockdowns so it can be that one country is in lockdown while others are not. It was allready a great initiative from europa to buy vaccines in bulk but as Avatar Etienne Henrij says, they should wave the patent and allow third party companies to reduce the vaccine aswell. Latvian be honest here it might cost trucks of money to develop a vaccine but it’s gone cost more money the pay the lockdowns last and the more consumers of their pills that are due to corona.
Nobody would profit from waiving patents except big American, Latam, Russian and Chinese companies because they then will dictate the prices in each respective regions and will destroy Europe's pharma companies. Also most of the world is not able to produce mRNA vaccines so waiving patents will just lead to Europe falling behind again because of dumb deicisions. License producing makes more sense. This can also work with cheap/free licenses and the owning companies can check which companies are capable of producing the vaccine so that the quality won't be bad. Waiving patents just is a terrible idea and pressuring the US, China and UK to stop export bans/restirctions will help much more. Also it takes months/years to set up production facilities for mRNA and it requires knowledge, money, experience and technology (which 99,99% of the world don't have for mRNA). In a few months BioNTch alone can produce 1 Billion doses per month and all other companies are also expanding production
... and that is much faster than letting our companies go bankrupt so that foreign greedy companies can start producing a few years with most of the time very bad quality. Waiving patents will only have bad effects and especially poorer countries will suffer MORE from that because it will take LONGER until vaccines are ready when the European companies go bankrupt and because greedy companies will take over the market and demanding more money while having no experience with the technology which will decrease quality and effectiveness, if Europe would gift its future technology to terrible uninnovative companies owned by regimes like the PRC that would eliminate the European companies. Also it would be a terrible signal to the market which will slow down progress by decades and decrease the will to risk something when the world leaders in mRNA technology (BioNTech and CureVac) go bankrupt after having only losses for decades and now with great risk finally earned some money and that are
going to reform battling cancer and other diseases humanity struggles with. All of that will vanish if we waive patents and only Russia, the US and the PRC will profit (moneywise)
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