US EditionCourt rules in favor of the New York Times over texts between an EU chief and a pharma boss
- On Wednesday, a leading European judicial body found that the European Commission improperly withheld text message communications from the New York Times, which were exchanged during the COVID-19 crisis.
- The case emerged after The New York Times sought access to text messages exchanged between the European Commission’s president and the head of Pfizer concerning COVID-19 vaccine procurement, which the Commission failed to produce without sufficient justification.
- The court criticized the Commission for not clarifying if the messages were deleted or why they believed the texts lacked important information, highlighting issues about transparency and oversight.
- Nicole Taylor of the New York Times called the ruling a "victory for transparency and accountability," while Transparency International urged the Commission to change its restrictive freedom of information approach.
- The European Commission has a little more than two months to decide whether to appeal the ruling at the European Court of Justice, while the decision strengthens calls for improved transparency and document disclosure within the influential EU executive.
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The European Commission must reconsider publishing von der Leyen's messages
The European Union's Court of Justice has ruled that the European Commission must better explain why it did not publish Commission President Ursula von der Leyen's phone messages with Pfizer CEO Albert Bourla, following a request from the New York Times.
European court delivers blow to EU Commission over Von der Leyen-Pfizer texts
The European Court of Justice has upheld a transparency challenge over undisclosed text messages between EU Commission President Ursula von der Leyen and Pfizer’s CEO during the Covid-19 vaccine negotiations.
European justice reproaches Von der Leyen for hiding the messages he sent to the head of Pfizer for the vaccines against covid
European justice has made a very serious — and not the first — wake-up call to the European Commission and, more specifically, to its head, Ursula von der Leyen, on transparency.The EU General Court (TGUE) has ruled this Wednesday that the European Executive acted incorrectly by rejecting the demand of the US daily The New York Times to access text messages exchanged during the negotiation of multimillion-dollar purchases of anti-covid vaccines …
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