EU stonewalls over von der Leyen’s role in multibillion-euro Pfizer vaccine deal

> "Just look at the picture: You have a Commission president who personally makes a deal with a Big Pharma CEO and who then later refuses to disclose the texts leading up to that negotiation."

> It wasn’t the first time that the Commission president had gotten in trouble over "disappearing" text messages. During her time as German defense minister, a parliamentary inquiry into well-paid deals with external consultants heard that a subordinate had accidentally erased text messages from her official phone and von der Leyen had herself deleted messages from her own device.