Mar 19, 2023
A European Parliament vote for bloc-wide digital IDs is the latest step towards the "Chinafication of Europe", an MEP has claimed. Cristian Terhes, a Member of the European Parliament (MEP) for the Christian Democratic National Peasants' Party, has described the European Union's latest push for cross-border digital IDs as another move towards the "Chinafication" of the bloc. Although bureaucrats in Brussels have insisted that the measure is in the interests of average citizens, the parliament's vote to see digital IDs adopted appears to be one of the latest attempts by EU institutions to pull power away from member-states' national governments. According to a report by Euractiv, the vote to see negotiations for a European Digital Identity Framework (eID) to go forward was approved by the bloc's parliament on Thursday - though the publication describes the process as a mere formality. Romana Jerkovic, the parliament's rapporteur for the digita
