MOSCOW (Pakistan Point News / Sputnik - 25th March, 2021) Members of the European Parliament on Thursday voted to accelerate the approval process of digital COVID-19 vaccine certificates to pave a way for facilitating travel withing the bloc by June.
"With 468 votes in favour, 203 against and 16 abstentions, MEPs [lawmakers] supported using the urgency procedure (Rule 163), which allows for faster parliamentary scrutiny of the Commission's proposals, while fully respecting its democratic prerogatives," the European Parliament said in a press release.
