nam 22 uu 4500 10.59704/bf35b87372bded80 DE-Verfassungsblog cr||||| 250521s2025||||xx#|||||o|||| ||| 0|eng|| 10.59704/bf35b87372bded80 doi eng 342 23 Alemanno, Alberto Author aut Text Messages, Transparency, and the Rule of Law - Pfizergate and the Fight for Institutional Accountability Alemanno, Alberto Verfassungsblog 2025-05-21 Text txt rdacontent Computermedien c rdamedia Online-Ressource cr rdacarrier On 14 May 2025, the General Court of the EU ruled in favour of The New York Times in the much-awaited Pfizergate case, annulling the European Commission's decision to withhold the SMS text messages presumed to have been exchanged between EU Commission President von der Leyen and Pfizer CEO Albert Bourla. While presented as another case concerning document access, potentially illuminating the informal negotiation process behind COVID-19 vaccine contracts and the management and archive of texts and other instant messages, this judgment largely defies this expectation. CC BY-SA 4.0 Charter of Fundamental Rights of the European Union Corona Rule of Law The General Court Transparenz Vaccines (DE-588)4185917-0 gnd Transparenz Max Steinbeis Verfassungsblog gGmbH Verfassungsblog 2366-7044 https://verfassungsblog.de/pfizergate-rule-of-law-eu-commission/ raw object