President Ursula von der Leyen on COVID certificates (SOTEU 2021)
We have shown that when we act together, we are able to act fast. Take the EU digital certificate: Today more than 400 million certificates have been generated across Europe. 42 countries in 4 continents are plugged in. We proposed it in March. You pushed it! Three months later it was up and running. Thanks to this joint effort, while the rest of the world talked about it, Europe just did it.