Covid-19 roundup: Watchdog criticizes EU Commission over president's texts; Novavax signs vaccine deal with Israel
The European Ombudsman, an independent investigatory body in the EU, called out the EU Commission for failing to search for text messages between Commission president Ursula von der Leyen and Pfizer chief Albert Bourla.
According to Politico, text messages between von der Leyen and Bourla were requested by a journalist with netzpolitik.org, a German-language news website that focuses on surveillance and privacy. Those messages were referenced in an article by the New York Times last year on the EU’s purchase of 1.8 billion doses of the Pfizer-BioNTech vaccine.
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