It is a serious setback that the Court of Justice of the European Union (CJEU) inflicted, Wednesday, May 14, on the Commission, for its lack of transparency in what the Brussels bubble now calls the “pfizergate”. Luxembourg judges have indeed “Given the appeal” of Matina Stevi, a journalist from New York Times,, to access the SMS that the president of the community executive, Ursula von der Leyen, and Albert Bourla, the CEO of Pfizer, was written, in 2021. She was refused access, in November 2022, and had seized the court of Luxembourg in order to obtain winning.
The American daily wanted to know more behind the scenes of a negotiation between the Commission, on behalf of the twenty-seven, and the laboratory, which ended, in May 2021, by the signing of a third contract between the two parties for the purchase of 1.8 billion doses of vaccines against the COVVI-19. Alfred Bourla himself had entrusted to New York Timesin April 2021, that her exchanges by SMS with Ursula von der Leyen had made it possible to install a two “Deep confidence”.
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Source: Lemonde