The negotiations begin. The European Parliament on Wednesday set out its negotiating position on what the European digital vaccination certificate proposed by the European Commission a few weeks ago should look like and what it should be used for. MEPs are calling for the certificate to avoid quarantine and for travel PCRs to be free of charge, as well as being very cautious about data privacy. But both the European Commission and the EU governments represented in the Council qualify these demands and, therefore, will negotiate three-way from now with the aim of reaching an agreement in the coming weeks so that the certificate can come into force in June. Although the position of MEPs is clear, the result of the vote will not be known until Thursday.

The European vaccination passport is taking shape. President Urusula Von der Leyen presented the proposal on Wednesday, which has been dubbed a digital green certificate, and which is intended to facilitate mobility in the run-up to the summer and open the door to a new, post-lockdown yet controlled normality. Brussels's proposal is a certificate that authorities will have to issue to all people immunised with one of the four vaccines approved by the European Medicines Agency (EMA): Pfizer/BioNTech, Moderna, AstraZeneca and Janssen. It will be free and bilingual (the official language of the state and English) and will also certify negative tests or whether the disease has been overcome. A QR code will ensure its authenticity and validity, and it can be kept digitally or in print.