Side of the Court with the New York Times compared to access to vaccine messages against the EU Covidio
In one case that could help model the rules of transparency in a digital era, a Wednesday court said that the European Union should not have denying the request of a journalist of text messages exchanged as the best official negotiated for access to the vaccine against the Coronavirus.The case was focused on the denial of the European Commission request, by a New York Times journalist, for text messages between Ursula von der Leyen, president of the commission and CEO of Pfizer, dr. Albert Bourla. The two exchanged messages in 2021 while they squeezed an agreement for Covid-19 vaccines and the Times challenged the refusal of the Commission to free them in a judicial case in 2023.The question at the center of the case was whether the text messages of Mrs. Von der Leyen were covered by the l...