A RULING IN A MATTER OF POLITICAL DYNAMITE
EU court should rule that European Commision President Ursula von der Leyen s secret text message with Pfizer s Albert Bourla to purchase covid jabs did indeed constitute a "document" and she has to be held accountable for them to restore public trust.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pfizergate
The Pfizergate text messages are clearly documents in the sense of consiting of information petaining to official EU business by a person holding a position of authority in the EU.
The EU tax payers and public have a right to know what von der Leyen wrote in them because it is connected to a decision on how to spend 10s of billions of their tax money and because it is a matter of vital public health interest.
The ruling has a diplomatic dimension as the Russians and Chinese are very well informed about the corruption at the heart of the EU due to the shocking facts contained in state prosecutor probes in Greece, which also implicate von der Leyen herself in ordinary sense crimes against a reporter to hide her conflicts of interests in covid jab decisions as well as her knowledge of the evidence and warnings the covid jabs would cause harms and deaths, as they have according to official EU statistics.
https://www.dropbox.com/scl/fi/xmvdermyzjhnje9z1hbkq/GRKProsecutorProbesConvictSoros-GatesOfMurderAttemptsOnReporter.pdf?rlkey=n4gz1whwa9vj8iktkg7ymxn6v&st=obi9i3b4&dl=0
https://www.dropbox.com/scl/fi/pgbxaxfm8yqmpd0gyvdfz/FProofsMitsotakisTrumpHaveKilledMillionsThroughCovidVaccinesDeliberately.pdf?rlkey=1knlntx5gohtuximxi56sr6cp&dl=0
https://drive.google.com/file/d/1aVXSfUObwdhd2aXPq2vnb7goJ9j5baQa/view
The more the EU and US politicians are seen to engage in gangster methods to silence a reporter year in year out, the less credibility they have as warnings of civil war swirl.
The covid jab crisis did more than anything to undermine trust in governments. It cannot be swept under the carpet. It cannot be censored away. The scandal is too huge. It must be dealt with using transparency and the rule of law if the EU is to have any future.
https://www.zerohedge.com/geopolitical/britain-brink-civil-war
SMS MESSAGES CLEARLY BREACHED EU RULES ON TRANSPARENCY AND ACCOUNTABILITY
The premise that a document conducting official EU business must be either in paper form or in electronic or email form to be classified as document as defined by the rules is false.
In her defense, von der Leyen seems to have used the logical fallacy of a false dilemna, claiming text messages can never be official documents.
But we are not talkng about EITHER a text message OR an official document.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/False_dilemma
Text messages can be documents if they contanin information relevant to official business and are sent by officials.
While text messages are most often used to conduct personal, private, unofficial, informal business, there are exceptions
To say every text message is unofficial is the logical fallacy of a faulty generalization.
When a text message is used by an EU official, by the EC President herself, to conduct official EU business it constitutes a "document" because of its function and content.
The notion a text message cannot be a document because it is also short is false and absurd.
Written papers and emails can be short and still be counted as documents because of their information content.
The definition of the word "document" by Merrian Webster emphasises that it is the content, the informtion, which makes something a document. It can be in written or paper form or electronic form or, it follows, it can be in text message form.. It can be long or short.
https://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/document
From Merriam Webster
document
noun
Synonyms of document
1 law
a archaic : PROOF, EVIDENCE
b : an original or official paper relied on as the basis, proof, or support of something
c : something (such as a photograph or a recording) that serves as evidence or proof
2 a : a writing conveying information
financial documents
historical documents
a classified document that was leaked to the media
b : a material substance (such as a coin or stone) having on it a representation of thoughts by means of some conventional mark or symbol
Text messages fit the definition of a document given in 2 b.
The Pfizergate text messages in question are a material substance (a text on a phone) representing the thoughts of von der Leyen and Bourla by means of conventional letters, words, marks or symbols in relation to official business.
As technologies and applications advance, there may soon be as yet unknown ways to communicate official EU and government business.
It would be absurd,, illogical, chaotic and a door to corruption if merely using a new technology or writing a short note made EU or government communication unofficial and so exempt from scrutiny.
Ursula von der Leyen signed one of the biggest, costliest and most controversial contracts for covid jabs ever in the history of the EU using text messages with Pfizer CEO Albert Bourla.
She must be held accountable for her communications and her decisions.
That requires transparency.
It is baffling and suspicous why von der Leyen has refused to hand over her text messages with Bourla.
The EU voters, the EU public has a right to transparecny, to know what their "elected" politicians do with their tax money, to have them compelled by courts, if necessary, to stick to the rules.
If von der Leyen can argue that by using text messages, she is exempt from public scutiny, and accountability, then the EU public s mistrust of institutions will grow.
This is especially the case as von der Leyen has a record in Germany of corruption as a Def Minister using just such "informal" means of communication to organize deals.
The suspicion must be that von der Leyen deliberately used text meassges as a means to escape official scrutiny and make a deal with Bourla involving about 100 billion in euro cash which may have corrupt terms included.
For example, it could be that von der Leyen and Bourla agreed on von der Leyen being given a percentage cut of the contract.
In that case, her motive for signing the Pfizer covid jab contract may have been unethical and illegal.
The public who paid for the contract has a right to know.
The contract pertained to highly sensitive public health matters and to experimental vaccines which were mandated in many cases during a time when basic rights and even parliaments were suspended in Europe.
The text messages need to be made public as a deterrence to future corruption but also to help Europe learn the lessons from the past, from a traumatic, chaotic covid jab crisis which has cost governments everywhere the trust of the public.
Without a change in course, without transparency and accountability, the EU and EU governments will face a growing crisis of legitimacy.
From media
BRUSSELS ― Ursula von der Leyen's legacy as European Commission president will face a huge challenge this week when the EU court rules on secret text messages she exchanged with the boss of a drug company that agreed a multibillion-euro vaccine deal with Brussels.
In what's set to be a reputation-defining judgment, the Court of Justice of the EU will decide whether by refusing to release the contents of her text conversation with Pfizer CEO Albert Bourla the Commission breached transparency rules.
Not only will Wednesday's "Pfizergate" decision in the lower-tier General Court have sweeping implications for how the bloc's top officials conduct business behind closed doors, it could also cast a shadow over von der Leyen's second five-year term at the helm, which only started on Dec. 1. As she battles to keep the Commission relevant amid nationalist rhetoric growing around the bloc, she has already attracted criticism for her tendency to centralize power and for rowing back on green-friendly commitments.
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The nub of the issue is whether text messages should be classed as documents and therefore eligible to be published in the name of transparency. While campaigners and many external observers say they should be treated just like any other means of official communication when related to policymaking, the Commission says not.
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The case is legally tricky for von der Leyen because she not only personally signed off on the bloc’s largest vaccine contract — worth billions of euros — she also presides over the very institution tasked with enforcing EU law, which includes principles of transparency and accountability. If the court rules against her, it would provide political ammunition to a wide range of critics.
It would also be a major embarrassment given it's just a few months after she publicly pledged to defend standards of transparency, efficiency and probity in her second term.
“This court ruling could mark a turning point for transparency in the EU,” said Shari Hinds, EU policy officer for political integrity at the NGO Transparency International. “When it comes to key decisions, particularly those affecting public health, secrecy should be avoided.”
https://www.politico.eu/article/von-der-leyen-critical-test-eu-court-decides-secret-pfizergate-texts/
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