{"id":1532083,"date":"2022-06-29T09:34:03","date_gmt":"2022-06-29T13:34:03","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/?p=1532083"},"modified":"2022-06-29T09:34:13","modified_gmt":"2022-06-29T13:34:13","slug":"texts-between-eu-pfizer-bosses-vanish-amid-questions-about-billion-dollar-vaccine-deal","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/texts-between-eu-pfizer-bosses-vanish-amid-questions-about-billion-dollar-vaccine-deal\/","title":{"rendered":"Texts Between EU, Pfizer Bosses Vanish Amid Questions About Billion-Dollar Vaccine Deal"},"content":{"rendered":"<aside class=\"mashsb-container mashsb-main mashsb-stretched\"><div class=\"mashsb-box\"><div class=\"mashsb-count mash-medium\" style=\"&quot;\"><div class=\"counts mashsbcount\">24<\/div><span class=\"mashsb-sharetext\">SHARES<\/span><\/div><div class=\"mashsb-buttons\"><a class=\"mashicon-facebook mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/sharer.php?u=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.conservativenewsdaily.net%2Fbreaking-news%2Ftexts-between-eu-pfizer-bosses-vanish-amid-questions-about-billion-dollar-vaccine-deal%2F\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Facebook<\/span><\/a><a class=\"mashicon-twitter mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/intent\/tweet?text=&amp;url=https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/?p=1532083&amp;via=ConservNewsDly\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Twitter<\/span><\/a><a class=\"mashicon-subscribe mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"#\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Subscribe<\/span><\/a><div class=\"onoffswitch2 mash-medium mashsb-noshadow\" style=\"display:none\"><\/div><\/div>\n            <\/div>\n                <div style=\"clear:both\"><\/div><\/aside>\n            <!-- Share buttons by mashshare.net - Version: 4.0.47--><p>Text messages exchanged between the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.dailywire.com\/topic\/european-union\">European Union<\/a>\u2018s boss and <a href=\"https:\/\/www.dailywire.com\/topic\/pfizer\">Pfizer<\/a>\u2019s CEO just before they sealed a lucrative COVID vaccine deal have vanished, a letter released Wednesday revealed, in the latest chapter of what Europeans are calling \u201cdelegate.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>European Commission President Ursula von der Leyen acknowledged over a year ago that she had been in regular contact with Pfizer boss <a href=\"https:\/\/www.dailywire.com\/news\/pfizer-ceo-covid-19-could-be-controlled-by-annual-vaccines-pills-to-treat\">Albert Bourla<\/a> while they worked out a deal for 1.8 billion doses of Pfizer\u2019s mRNA vaccine. But after a reporter sought the text messages, the commission, which is the EU\u2019s executive body, said they are gone, according to a letter published by the EU watchdog.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThe Commission can confirm that the search undertaken by the President\u2019s cabinet for relevant text messages corresponding to the request for access to documents has not yielded any results,\u201d European Union Justice Commissioner Vera Jourova <a href=\"https:\/\/www.reuters.com\/article\/eu-pfizer-vaccines-von-der-leyen\/eus-von-der-leyen-cant-find-texts-with-pfizer-chief-on-vaccine-deal-letter-idUKL1N2YG0ID\">said<\/a> in a letter to the agency\u2019s ombudsman, according to Reuters.<\/p>\n<p lang=\"en\" dir=\"ltr\">The elite demand that YOU have no privacy while themselves refusing all transparency:<\/p>\n<p>\u201cUrsula von der Leyen exchanged TEXTS with PFIZER CHIEF Albert Bourla for a month when they were negotiating a massive vaccine contract\u201d<\/p>\n<p>She can \u2018no longer find them\u2019<a href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/uR21K9gkqR\">https:\/\/t.co\/uR21K9gkqR<\/a><\/p>\n<p>\u2014 Maajid \u0623\u0628\u0648 \u0639\u0645\u0651\u0627\u0631 (@MaajidNawaz) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/MaajidNawaz\/status\/1542092173138710531?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">June 29, 2022<\/a><\/p>\n<p>The deal was <a href=\"https:\/\/www.bloomberg.com\/news\/articles\/2021-05-07\/eu-set-to-sign-off-new-pfizer-vaccine-contract-as-soon-as-friday\">announced with fanfare<\/a> in May of 2021, but the commission did not reveal the price of the contract. It covered 1.8 billion doses for the 450 million European Union residents from 2021-2023 as well as booster shots. Pfizer made an estimated <a href=\"https:\/\/www.dailywire.com\/news\/pfizer-set-to-rake-in-15-billion-from-covid-19-vaccine-sales\">$15 billion<\/a> last year off of its vaccine.<\/p>\n<p>Von der Leyen revealed last year that\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/www.jpost.com\/breaking-news\/article-694877\">she had exchanged texts<\/a> with Bourla for a month when they negotiated the deal, believed to be worth billions of dollars. When a journalist sought the texts and was denied, EU ombudsman Emily O\u2019Reilly accused the governing body of \u201cmaladministration\u201d and asked the commission to look again for the texts, Reuters reported.<\/p>\n<p>The letter released on Wednesday said the messages are no longer in Von der Leyen\u2019s possession, and argued that text messages are not subject to public scrutiny anyway.<\/p>\n<p class=\"dcr-xry7m2\">\u201cDue to their short-lived and ephemeral nature, text and instant messages in general do not contain important information relating to policies, activities and decisions of the commission,\u201d the letter <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/2022\/jun\/29\/european-commission-defiant-over-von-der-leyens-pfizer-texts\">stated<\/a>, per The Guardian.<\/p>\n<p class=\"dcr-xry7m2\">O\u2019Reilly\u2019s office called the commission\u2019s response \u201cproblematic on several points\u201d and said it\u00a0intends to publish a detailed report on the matter sometime in July.<\/p>\n<p>European Parliament Member Kathleen Van Brempt, a Belgian Social Democrat and chair of the special committee on Covid-19, told the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/2022\/jun\/29\/european-commission-defiant-over-von-der-leyens-pfizer-texts\">Guardian<\/a> the European Commission\u2019s response was unacceptable.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThe complete lack of transparency benefits the industry, not European citizens,\u201d she said.<\/p>\n<p>In addition to concerns about the secrecy of negotiations, some European leaders have sought to renegotiate the deal because many of the doses are going to waste as more residents refuse to get vaccinated, according to Reuters.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Text messages exchanged between the European Union\u2018s boss and Pfizer\u2019s CEO just before they sealed a lucrative COVID vaccine deal have vanished, a letter released Wednesday revealed, in the latest chapter of what Europeans are calling \u201cdelegate.\u201d European Commission President Ursula von der Leyen acknowledged over a year ago that she had been in regular &#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":729,"featured_media":1532110,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_mo_disable_npp":"","fifu_image_url":"","fifu_image_alt":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1532083","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1532083","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/729"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1532083"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1532083\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/1532110"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1532083"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1532083"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1532083"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}