"SHOCKING: In the wake of Austria's drastic lockdown of unvaccinated people, EU chief calls for throwing out Nuremberg Code," says a December 4, 2021 Instagram post that shares a screenshot of a December 2 article from The Post Millennial.
That article has since been updated, but others with similar headlines as well as posts making the same claim have been circulating in English on Twitter and Facebook, and in French, Polish and German.
But the European Commission president did not mention the Nuremberg Code or call for "throwing it out."
The claim stems from a December 1 press conference during which von der Leyen answered reporters' questions about challenges posed by Covid-19 outbreaks on the continent and the new Omicron variant.
She did urge member states to discuss mandatory vaccination, but made clear that it was merely her personal opinion: the Commission cannot impose such a policy on sovereign member states.
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