• On social networks, several publications claim that the EU has created a "European fund to compensate victims of [the] Covid vaccines".

  • They also maintain that the European Medicines Agency recognizes more than 5,000 deaths linked to vaccination.

  • These claims are doubly misleading: the causal link between the figure put forward and vaccination has not been proven, and the compensation fund has only been the subject of a motion for a resolution from a MEP. - and not of Parliament itself.

“Olivier Véran affirms that there are no deaths linked to the vaccine against [the] Covid 19!

However, a compensation fund has been created by the European Union for the families of the thousands of victims!

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According to this Facebook page, the statements of the Minister of Health around vaccination would be directly contradicted by an initiative of the European institution.

And it is not the only one: several Internet users agree with this, by sharing the link of a "motion for a resolution on the creation of a European Compensation Fund for victims of" vaccines against [the] Covid-19 "".

A statistic put forward in this resolution is notably included in these publications, according to which 5,000 people would have allegedly died because of the anti-Covid-19 vaccine, a figure which would come from the "European Medicines Agency".

However, while the resolution does exist, it does not emanate from the European Parliament - and the causality between the vaccines and these deaths is not established.

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Publications based on data from the European Medicines Agency (EMA) to claim deaths are caused by anti-Covid-19 vaccination are not new.

As explained by our colleagues from AFP Factuel in June 2021, they use the figures from the Eudravigilance database, which lists “suspected adverse effects” of drugs, and a sub-category linked to deaths.

But as the AEM website specifies, “information on reported adverse reactions should not be interpreted as meaning that the drug or active substance causes the observed effect or that its use presents a risk. Only a detailed analysis and a scientific evaluation of all the available data can draw robust conclusions about the benefits and risks of a drug ”.

In addition, Francesco Salvo, coordinator of the safety investigation on the Pfizer vaccine in France, explained to

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this summer the operation of these pharmacovigilance bases, and the results to be drawn: “For the moment, nothing has happened to us. allows us to affirm that deaths were caused by the Pfizer vaccine in France, except in elderly and fragile people, whom we vaccinated at the very start of the campaign […] and who died in a context of influenza syndromes which could be caused by the vaccine.

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A motion for a resolution from an MEP

As for the resolution in question, it was tabled by MEP Virginie Joron, member of the Identity and Democracy group and of the National Rally (RN). She had also announced it on her Facebook page on September 24, explaining that it seemed to her "fair and important to ask the European Commission to take into account the victims of Covid-19 vaccines" via the "creation of a compensation fund ”.

This procedure is standard: Article 143 of the European Parliament provides that “any Member may table a motion for a resolution on a question falling within the fields of activity of the European Union. "" The motion for a resolution is submitted to the chairman, who checks whether it meets the applicable criteria. If it declares the proposal admissible, it announces it in plenary session and transmits it to the competent committee ”, continues this article. Then, "the committee responsible decides on the procedure to be followed, which may consist in attaching the motion for a resolution to other motions for resolutions or reports, (or else) in adopting an opinion". Another possibility is that it “may also decide not to act on the motion for a resolution. "

If this motion for a resolution was sent to the ENVI committee (Committee on the Environment, Public Health and Food Safety) at the end of October, a European source told

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 that the committee's coordinators decided not to not follow through.

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