Missing text messages, corruption money and relatives sitting on important boards of directors. They could even be the headlines of a new Hollywood political thriller or the everyday life of a Central American banana republic. Unfortunately, this is now the 2022 Brussels obstinacy.
One of the main stakeholders in the case is Ursula von der Leyen, the president of the European Commission. It was recently revealed about the hereditary member of the Merkel governments that in the middle of the coronavirus epidemic, during the EU vaccine procurement, he discussed certain details with the head of Pfizer via SMS. In SMS, people usually describe the exact place or time of a less important meeting, or wish the other person a happy birthday or name day. In this case, however, it was about much more.
To be exact, a deal worth 35 billion euros, or roughly 14,000 billion (!!!) HUF, was completed. In text. Instead of a birthday wish.
In order for the details of the case to be revealed, it would be important to be able to read back these text messages, however, based on the European Commission's own investigation, they have disappeared from Ursula von der Leyen's phone. It's as if some messages just disappear from a mobile by themselves. Of course, Ursula von der Leyen has experience in this sort of thing. He did the same as the German Minister of National Defense - after his secretary of state, certified by a consulting firm, signed a three-year, 200 million euro contract with his former employer. What happened then was that by the time his mobile devices came before the parliamentary committee investigating the case, the messages had unfortunately disappeared.
According to Ursula, of course, this is not such a problem, because, quoting her, "there was nothing important" in her messages.
And by the way, the commission investigating the case and Angela Merkel, the EU champion of transparency, were satisfied with this. So much so that he directly nominated von der Leyen for the highest European office. Looking at it from this point of view, it is not so surprising that the text messages just disappeared from his phone again. And then we didn't talk about the family thread. Von der Leyen's husband is a board member of a pharmaceutical company that has close ties to Pfizer and BionTech, but this is really just a side story.
The European Commission is a strange body, because there are members for whom things disappear, but there are also those for whom things appear. It belongs to them
Also Health Commissioner Stella Kyriakides, who has no less than 4 million euros, i.e. 1 billion 600 million forints, in a bank account - interestingly, right after the EU vaccine purchase.
Of course, Kyriakides - who privatized all oncology treatments in Cyprus, in his country, which were then made significantly more expensive - could easily clear himself by disclosing the contracts he signed, but for some reason he is not willing to do so. Of course the dog is barking, the caravan is moving. Despite the multi-billion cases of suspected corruption, the commissioners and the President of the Commission just smile, impose sanctions and support Ukraine, as if nothing had happened. And really, until there is a forum, a body, before which the corrupt politicians of Brussels can be held accountable, nothing will have any consequences. At the same time, the question definitely arises
on what basis does a political body suspected of corruption demand accountability for any corruption measures in a member state?
On what basis do they refuse payments from Hungary citing corruption, while they themselves cannot account for billions? This is exactly how they hide themselves. This is precisely how they prove that the withholding of EU funds is actually a political maneuver.
In our opening picture: Ursula von der Leyen is the president of the European Commission
Author: Zoltán Kaszab Source: vasarnap.hu
