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The European Commission did not give the public enough information about COVID-19 vaccine deals, EU court says

The European Commission was criticized for withholding details of Covid vaccine deals by an EU court.
The court ruled that the commission did not prove disclosing vaccination indemnification details would harm pharmaceutical companies' commercial interests.
The court also found that the commission failed a "public interest" test by concealing the names of EU officials involved in the deals.

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Brussels did not provide enough information to the public about the purchase of Covid-19 vaccines.

The judgments relate to contracts concluded between the commission and various pharmaceutical companies in 2020 and 2021. Their value, according to the court, was around 2.7 billion euros, and they made it possible to order more than one billion doses of the covid-19 vaccine.

7 months ago·Ljubljana, Slovenia

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7 months ago·Johannesburg, South Africa

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The judges assert that Brussels did not provide sufficiently comprehensive information to the public, thus annulling “the decisions of the Commission to the extent that they contain irregularities”.

7 months ago·Portugal

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EU court: EU did not provide enough information on vaccine contracts

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7 months ago·Hamburg, Germany

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