US EditionJudgment day in EU chief's Covid vaccine texts case
- The highest judicial body in the European Union is expected to deliver a ruling on the bloc's decision to withhold text message exchanges between Ursula von der Leyen and Pfizer CEO Albert Bourla concerning Covid vaccines.
- The case arose after the New York Times sued the European Commission in 2023 for not providing texts revealed to exist amid the Covid vaccine procurement at the pandemic's height.
- The Commission argued the messages had not been recorded or archived as they were not deemed substantive, and officials including von der Leyen have no obligation to document all communications.
- Lawyer Bondine Kloostra called it a key test of whether public officials can evade transparency by using texts, while the EU ombudsman described the case as 'maladministration' in January 2022.
- The ruling could set precedent on public access to officials' private communications during major contracts, impacting transparency practices across the EU's Covid vaccine dealings and beyond.
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ECJ to rule on Von der Leyen text message case
The ECJ is to rule on whether or not European Commission President Ursula von der Leyen was wrong to withhold text messages she shared with the head of a major drug company over a multi-billion euro contract to supply hundreds of millions of Covid vaccines.
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