The European Commission (EC) probably did not renounce text messages, which do you during the pandemic of Covid-19 The chairwoman of the Ursula Von Der Leyen and Pfizer Albert Bourla. The American newspaper The New York Times (NYT) reported on Friday, TASR writes.
The news was written by both representatives at a time when The European Union struggled with a lack of vaccines and von der Leyen was under pressure to ensure enough for Member States. The US daily asked the EC to make communication available according to union rules on transparency. The Commission refused.
In May, the Court of Justice of the European Union has decided that The EC in the case of also known as Pfizergate was wrong and did not provide a credible explanationwhy she refused access to the news.
The EC in a letter of 28 July told NYT that the head of the Cabinet of the Commission chairman Björn Seibert checked the phone and application Signal, which Von der Leyen is using, no, no. did not find any messages corresponding to the description of the newspaper request. She added that Seibert performed a similar control in 2021, with According to him, the reports only concerned the arguing of telephone calls with Bourl, so they were not preserved as official documents.
The European Commission insists that Text messages and other “temporary” electronic communication may not necessarily be documents that should be kept or published. Such a decision was up to the EC chief. The EC also stated in its letter that Her phone has been exchanged several times since then Last time in the middle of 2024, without the data being transferred.
Critics von der der Leyen and Seibert from the centralization of power within the EC, strict control over the selection of employees of the Cabinet of Individual Commissioners and restriction of access to information.
The European Parliament 10th July did not support the proposal to pronounce EC. The impulses to it were except for the pfizergate case I also suspects of incorrect management of EU funds and unverified claims about interfering with the elections.
