France votes on end of state of health emergency and Covid health pass
The vote means that there is now a legal basis on which the government can announce deconfinement measures, and gradually end the state of health emergency without losing its powers to reconfine or restrict freedoms if the health situation so requires. The state of health emergency will now end on September 30, not on October 30 as the government had initially wanted. In their amendments to the text, both MPs and Senators limited the government’s ability to resort to extra curfews and lockdowns as part of the transition out of the state of health emergency. A curfew will still be possible...