{"id":553528,"date":"2022-10-01T15:03:44","date_gmt":"2022-10-01T19:03:44","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/goldtadise.com\/?p=553528"},"modified":"2022-10-01T15:03:44","modified_gmt":"2022-10-01T19:03:44","slug":"pfizer-ceo-bails-on-eu-testimony-after-report-highlights-secretive-vaccine-deal","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/goldtadise.com\/?p=553528","title":{"rendered":"Pfizer CEO Bails On EU Testimony After Report Highlights &#8216;Secretive&#8217; Vaccine Deal"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>In early September, an audit repirt into the EU&#8217;s vaccine procurement strategy\u00a0<strong>raised questions over Bourla&#8217;s relationship with European Commission President Ursula von der Leyen<\/strong>\u00a0before they struck a multibillion-euro vaccine deal.<\/p>\n<blockquote><p><em>The\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/www.politico.eu\/article\/eu-stonewalls-over-von-der-leyens-role-in-multi-billion-euro-pfizer-jab-deal\/\">report<\/a>, by the European Court of Auditors, found that\u00a0<strong>von der Leyen had been directly involved in preliminary negotiations for the EU&#8217;s biggest vaccine contract<\/strong>, for up to <strong>1.8 billion doses of the BioNTech\/Pfizer vaccine<\/strong>, which was concluded in May 2021.\u00a0<strong>This was a departure from the negotiating procedure followed with other contracts, where a joint negotiating team made up of officials from the Commission and member countries conducted exploratory talks.<\/strong>\u00a0-Politico<\/em><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.zerohedge.com\/covid-19\/pfizer-ceo-bails-eu-testimony-after-report-highlights-secretive-vaccine-deal\">https:\/\/www.zerohedge.com\/covid-19\/pfizer-ceo-bails-eu-testimony-after-report-highlights-secretive-vaccine-deal<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>In early September, an audit repirt into the EU&#8217;s vaccine procurement strategy\u00a0raised questions over Bourla&#8217;s relationship with European Commission President Ursula von der Leyen\u00a0before they struck a multibillion-euro vaccine deal. The\u00a0report, by the European Court of Auditors, found that\u00a0von der &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/goldtadise.com\/?p=553528\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2948,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-553528","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/goldtadise.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/553528","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/goldtadise.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/goldtadise.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/goldtadise.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2948"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/goldtadise.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=553528"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/goldtadise.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/553528\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/goldtadise.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=553528"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/goldtadise.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=553528"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/goldtadise.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=553528"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}