The European Commission acted improperly by refusing to release communications with Pfizer to the media, the ruling states.
The European Commission wrongly denied the media access to secret text messages between its president, Ursula von der Leyen, and the CEO of pharma giant Pfizer, exchanged during negotiations of a multi-billion dollar Covid-19 vaccine deal, the Court of Justice of the European Union ruled on Wednesday.
The so-called “Pfizergate” case centers on a 2021 interview von der Leyen gave to the New York Times (NYT) in which she claimed she had been negotiating a deal for 900 million COVID vaccine shots with Pfizer CEO Albert Bourla via sms messages.
The NYT subsequently filed an access request for the messages, to which the EC claimed the texts, which have never been released, were not in its possession.
The court ruled that the EC “cannot merely state that it does not hold the requested documents but must provide credible explanations enabling the public and the Court to understand why those documents cannot be found.”
It also criticized the Commission for failing to justify why the texts were not retained and to clarify how they were deleted.
In response, the EC said it recognized the need for greater transparency and promised to issue a new decision with more detailed reasoning. It did not, however, commit to releasing the messages in question. The ruling can be appealed to the European Court of Justice.
A similar CJEU judgment last July found that the EC lacked transparency in how it negotiated vaccine contracts with Pfizer and AstraZeneca. The deals, signed in 2020 and 2021 and worth approximately €2.7 billion ($3 billion), were shielded from disclosure to European Parliament members on the grounds of protecting commercial interests.
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“von der liar” also refused to give those documents to the European Parliament.
But ” parliament” is in these a deceitfull word as it has no power of decision. Only to acquiesce to the decisions of “von der liar ” and her clique.
The term “No power of decision” is exactly what we people are living in the west. Our democracy begins with choosing between a handful of actors. Some seemingly present themselves as our representatives but have zero say when its time to inject our kids with poison, go to war to secure access to rare earth minerals.
Matters like Mr Barry Young who claims his official government data revealed in one jab centre alone 99 people were injected in one day and within one year 36 are dead. Ignored by the police, ignored by our politicians. Barry is a hero. The police are criminals not to act.
A government who knows Barry Young”s data yet legislates everyone must be forced jabed. Held down by police..
That is murder, that is genocide. Do people have the right to defend themselves? Hell Yes! By all means necessary.
Luxon is not the leader of the government. He is a representative of the people who own everything. He is controlled. His orders are to reduce population. His orders are to crash the economy. His orders are to take your land by making it unaffordable. His orders are to make it too expensive to be in business. His orders iare to not allow immigration in the volume NZ needs to allow the economy to work, His orders are to ignore all claims of genocide. His orders are to arrest and prosecute anyone who reveals the truth.
Is the opposition any better. Evidently not ! They are all the same. Labour made owning a rental unaffordable with thier non-deductibility of overheads. Next is the capital gains tax. Do you think the place you rent is going to be more expensive or less? Like to own it? Be careful what you wish for. Compliance, bodycorp, rates, mortgage, maintenance, unexpected interest rates along with other things like heating, food , water rates, power, gas, new regulations will keep 2 people at work for longer just to live.
You want to know how to control someone in power? Find an under aged naked video on their device. Pay them a mountain of money by giving them a job to make decisions over others . Blackmail them to carryout your plan.
That is the world we live in.
Yes, they are all (S)elected puppets carrying out orders from the cult bloodline powers thar ought not be.
yes I agree, Luxon is a silk stocking filled with shit
Von der liar is a disgrace. An unelected compulsive liar who should be locked up.
And it appears the EC and Ursula, and Albert Bourla for that matter are going to get away with their crimes.
They are just letting us know they are above the law.
Not so sure theyvwill get away with their crimes.
Individuals and countries have started a procedure against von der liar. It is difficult and the ” law” resists. But people persists. It will take time, but times also are changing and many european countries have had enough of Bruxelles. Only it is not that simple to get out now most countries have renounced their own currencies. The Euro ( with quantitative easing = printing more worthless paper) and probable bankrupcy might be a blessing in disguise.
Yes, nothing to see here but “recognized the need for greater transparency” so case closed.
The whole thing reeks. What we are seeing here is little more than legal “paper shuffling”. No one relevant to this matter, will be held to account nor ever is, in the neo con, globalist, empire of lies.