(ANSA) - PARIS, FEBRUARY 25 - The French president, Emmanuel Macron, will meet next week the members of the government to prepare the "health pass" which will not be a "vaccine passport", in view of the reopening of the places of culture and restaurants closed during the Covid-19 pandemic.
This was announced by the head of the Elysée himself this evening after the end of the European Council.
The creation of this new instrument "will pose many technical questions, of respect for individual data, of the organization of our freedoms", said Macron, and for this "we must prepare it from now on technically, politically, legally".
"I feel - said Macron - that there is a lot of confusion sometimes on this issue" but the health pass "will not be linked only to vaccination", he stressed.
Since "if we manage to open some sites, we will not be able to condition their access to a vaccination, and among other things we will not have the vaccination open to the youngest".
"We must avoid - Macron said after the discussion today with the leaders of the 27 - that each country develops its own system, working on a common medical certification".
(HANDLE).