EU Rejects Showing Texts Sent to Pfizer CEO in Transparency Test
- Von der Leyen’s messages contain no deal talks, EU lawyers say
- New York Times challenges commission secrecy at bloc’s court
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The European Commission refused to hand over text messages its president sent to Pfizer Inc.’s boss at the height of the pandemic, posing a transparency challenge over a major vaccine deal.
The New York Times asked the EU’s General Court on Friday to force the disclosure of a message exchange between Ursula von der Leyen and chief executive officer, Albert Bourla, that could show how a multi billion euro vaccine deal was struck in 2021.