The Court of Justice of the European Union (CJEU) on Wednesday, May 14th, ruled that the European Commission violated transparency rules by failing to grant access to text messages between Commission chief Ursula von der Leyen and the CEO of Pfizer as the bloc tried to secure Covid vaccines.
The court sided with The New York Times, which brought the case, saying the commission “failed to explain in a plausible manner why it considered that the text messages exchanged in the context of the procurement of COVID-19 vaccines did not contain important information.”
The case is one of the biggest corruption scandals involving the Commission and its president, von der Leyen, and, as europeanconservative.com wrote in its analysis, its outcome will heavily influence people’s trust in the European project for years, or decades, to come.
