ER Editor: This France Soir piece (browsers will translate) reveals that the Court of Justice of the European Union (CJUE) handed down two decisions on the same day, yesterday July 17. The first rules that there was no justification for excessive redaction of the vaccine contracts and the resulting lack of transparency. Second, that particular types of information on the vaccine contracts shouldn’t have been kept hidden, such as the identities of contract negotiators and rates of compensation for vaccine injury victims. This article adds (and here we note the number 17),
The omerta and the silence of the mainstream media for months on the various complaints about the opacity of the decisions, and possible corruption, of Ursula Von der Leyen, seem to have broken on July 17, 2024 : many people mentioned the decision.
The article continues (and we notice another date of the 17th, as well as a reversal in 71 billions euros) —
Decisions that have been expected for more than eight months on contracts worth 71 billion euros
The CJEU will therefore have waited until the last moment, a day before the anonymous vote, for the decisive vote of the ‘popular jobs’ as that of the presidency of the European Commission.
These decisions, really late, from the CJEU, can be perceived as support for von der Leyen’s candidacy for his own succession. If she had intervened before the hearing of 17 May in Liege in the’ Baldan case or before the European elections, the magistrates and citizens could have learned of the abuses of the president and the Commission. Added to this is the support of the EPP, the European People’s Party, to whom Frederic Baldan had asked to withdraw the candidacy of von der Leyen.
We do concur with France Soir’s reasonable interpretation of the timing, but we wonder what else might be going on here.
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Politico.eu also picked up the story. See —
Von der Leyen loses court case in blow to her 2nd-term bid
Ursula von der Leyen’s bid for a second term as European Commission chief has been dealt a major blow after a top EU court ruled she was not transparent enough with the public about Covid-19 vaccine contracts.
The General Court of the European Union ruled against the Commission’s decision to redact large parts of the contracts before making them available.
The ruling came just over 24 hours before von der Leyen’s political future will be decided by members of the European Parliament. She needs 361 of the 720 EU lawmakers to back her in a secret vote that is expected to be close.
“She needs to make concessions on this for our vote,” one delegate within Renew Europe, granted anonymity to speak candidly, told POLITICO, adding: “It is important that von der Leyen shows that she can herself gauge the seriousness and the appropriate remedy.”
In the same way that Charles Michel has been picked up by the white hats according to a RRN report, we don’t believe for a second that von der Leyen is at liberty either.
A visual reminder of where we’ve been —
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EU Commission hid details from public about Covid-19 vaccine contracts – court
Brussels was not transparent enough about deals with Pfizer, AstraZeneca and other pharmaceutical firms, according to a judicial ruling
RT
The EU’s second highest judicial body has decided that the EU Commission has not been transparent enough about Covid vaccine deals with pharma giants such as Pfizer and AstraZeneca, and had no legitimate reasons to conceal certain details of contracts with them.
The ruling by the bloc’s General Court covers purchase agreements struck by the EU Commission in 2020 and 2021, at the height of the pandemic, and worth “approximately €2.7 billion” ($2.95 billion), according to the court’s statement published on Wednesday.
In 2021, some MEPs requested access to the documents detailing the terms of the deals to make sure that the public interest was protected and the members of the EU negotiating team had no personal conflict of interest.
Brussels only provided them with partial access to redacted documents and refused to reveal the negotiating team’s members. The Commission argued that was necessary to protect commercial interests and the decision-making process. The MEPs then brought the issue to the court.
“The Commission did not give the public sufficiently wide access to the purchase agreements for COVID-19 vaccines,” the court said in its statement. “The Commission did not demonstrate that wider access to those clauses would actually undermine the commercial interests of those undertakings.”
The court also ruled that “the Commission did not take sufficient account of all the relevant circumstances in order to weigh up correctly the interests at issue, related to the absence of a conflict of interests and a risk that the right of privacy of the persons concerned might be infringed.” The ruling partly upheld two cases against Brussels and annulled the Commission’s decisions to withhold the data from the public, arguing that such decisions “contain irregularities.”
Brussels promptly reacted to the judgement, which came just two days before a European Parliament vote on Ursula von der Leyen’s bid for a second term as the EU Commission head. Text messages between her and the Pfizer boss about one of the contracts were one of the points of contention between the Commission and the MEPs earlier. The lawmakers demanded access to them, but Brussels maintained that she had not retained the messages.
“In general, the Commission grants the widest possible public access to documents, in line with the principles of openness and transparency,” the court said in a statement, adding that it “only partially upheld the legal action on two points” and “confirmed that the Commission was entitled to provide only partial access.”
Brussels also stated that it would “carefully study” the decision and that it “reserves its legal options.” The EU Commission can still appeal the decision to the European Court of Justice – the bloc’s highest judiciary body.
Source
Featured image source: https://www.francesoir.fr/politique-monde/pfizergate-von-der-leyen-et-la-commission-europeenne-desavouees-par-la-cjue-pour
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