European Commission loses court case over von der Leyen vaccine texts

A top court Wednesday ruled the European Commission failed the transparency test by declining to release text messages sent by its president Ursula von der Leyen to the head of Pfizer as the bloc tried to secure Covid vaccines, AFP reported.

The Court of Justice of the European Union 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."