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- It’s a win for EU transparency. In the long-awaited Pfizergate ruling, EU judges said the Commission failed to explain why it withheld texts Ursula von der Leyen exchanged with Pfizer’s CEO during negotiations on a multi-billion-euro vaccine deal.
- EU judges rule tomorrow on Pfizergate, the case about von der Leyen’s secret texts with Pfizer’s CEO to secure a multi-billion-euro vaccine deal. Here are three things to know about the ruling, which could reshape how transparency works at the highest level of the EU.
- Next week, EU judges will rule on the Pfizergate scandal: did the secret texts between von der Leyen and Pfizer’s CEO vanish, or were they never meant to be seen? We spoke to legal scholar Päivi Leino-Sandberg: for her, this case is about more than texts. It’s a battle for transparency.
