{"id":312908,"date":"2025-08-02T21:36:17","date_gmt":"2025-08-02T21:36:17","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/312908\/"},"modified":"2025-08-02T21:36:17","modified_gmt":"2025-08-02T21:36:17","slug":"eu-executive-reviewed-von-der-leyens-pfizergate-texts-then-let-them-disappear-politico","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/312908\/","title":{"rendered":"EU executive reviewed von der Leyen\u2019s Pfizergate texts \u2014 then let them disappear \u2013 POLITICO"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The mobile phone used by von der Leyen has been replaced several times since then with the data not having been transferred, the document continued.<\/p>\n<p>In May, the EU\u2019s lower tier General Court ruled that the EU executive was wrong not to release the texts, a decision that Politico <a href=\"https:\/\/www.politico.eu\/article\/commission-misses-deadline-to-appeal-pfizergate-judgment\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">revealed<\/a> this week the Commission will not be contesting at the top tier court.<\/p>\n<p>The case became a flashpoint for transparency activists who said it demonstrated the lack of accountability in von der Leyen\u2019s Commission \u2015 and for people who opposed the use of the vaccine in the first place.<\/p>\n<p>At the beginning of July, von der Leyen successfully <a href=\"https:\/\/www.politico.eu\/article\/ursula-von-der-leyen-defends-pfizergate-no-confidence-vote-eu-transparency-vaccines\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">saw off<\/a> a no-confidence vote in the European Parliament over the case, triggered by right-wing Romanian MEP Gheorghe Piperea.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"The mobile phone used by von der Leyen has been replaced several times since then with the data&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":312909,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[5174],"tags":[41010,30,2814,2000,299,5187,11665,547,48,11587,1220,17288,114152],"class_list":{"0":"post-312908","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-eu","8":"tag-accountability","9":"tag-courts","10":"tag-data","11":"tag-eu","12":"tag-europe","13":"tag-european","14":"tag-meps","15":"tag-mobile","16":"tag-rights","17":"tag-transparency","18":"tag-ursula-von-der-leyen","19":"tag-vaccines","20":"tag-vdl-pfizer-texts"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/pubeurope.com\/@uk\/114961329943712762","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/312908","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=312908"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/312908\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/312909"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=312908"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=312908"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=312908"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}