Text Messages, Transparency, and the Rule of Law - Pfizergate and the Fight for Institutional Accountability Alemanno, Alberto Author aut Text xx# 2025 Verfassungsblog 2025-05-21 eng
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 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 Alemanno, Alberto Charter of Fundamental Rights of the European Union Corona Rule of Law The General Court Transparenz Vaccines Transparenz 342 https://verfassungsblog.de/pfizergate-rule-of-law-eu-commission/ Verfassungsblog 2366-7044 Max Steinbeis Verfassungsblog gGmbH 10.59704/bf35b87372bded80 250521 10.59704/bf35b87372bded80 Converted from MARCXML to MODS version 3.7 using MARC21slim2MODS3-7.xsl (Revision 1.140 20200717)