Ursula von der Leyen risks heavy secondary effects – politico

Tote The question is whether SMS should be considered documents and donations likely to be published in the name of transparency. Activists and numerous extental observers claim that they should be said to be freed to the means of official communication when they are linked to the development of public political unit. The commission, it is not of this opinion.

Bad timing

The case is the jurisdiction of the Sele. Includes principles of transparency and responsibility. If justice is pronounced against it, Hela will offer political ammunition to a wide range of prostitors.

Such disrepair would squeeze all the more embarrassing as it was intertwined what only months Aptrès that Ulula von der Leyen was published in defended the standards of transparency, efficiency and probation to the sound of its second mandate.

“This decision of justice for the turning point to mark one for transparency in the EU”, a declared Shari Hinds, responsible for the political antigrity within the NGO Transparency International. “When it comes to important disappointments, in particular the cells that concern public Santi, the secret should avoided.”

The case was launched by the New York Times and his former office manager in Brussels, which intentionally covers the commission against the commission not to disclose the SMS in 2022.

Their existence was revealed Dance Interview granted to the New York Times in April 2021, in which Albert Bourla described their exchanges as favorites of “deep confidence” and facilitated negotiations a substantial contract ex on vaccines. The latter, finished in May 2021, provided that the EU undertook to buy up to 1.8 billion doses of the pfizer-biontech vaccine against the COVIR, that is to say more importantly of all the contracts signed by Brussels.