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EU Commission chief von der Leyen has fallen ill with 'severe pneumonia' and has cancelled all her appointments for the next two weeks, her office has announced.

European Commission President Ursula von der Leyen has been diagnosed with "severe pneumonia" and has cancelled her engagements for the first two weeks of January, her office announced on Friday.

"She is dealing with severe pneumonia," a spokesperson said in a statement, though he provided no further details on her condition or the cause of her illness.

Her cancelled engagements include a visit to Lisbon where she was due to make a speech, as well as a trip to Gdansk to mark "the occasion of the launch of the Polish Council Presidency, which will take place at a later stage," the spokesperson said.

The EU Commission president did not attend an event in Warsaw on Friday evening where Poland marked the beginning of its six-month EU Council presidency with an opening gala.

At 66, von der Leyen had only just embarked on her second five-year term at the helm of the EU's powerful executive body.

 

https://www.euronews.com/my-europe/2025/01/03/eu-commission-von-der-leyen-ill-with-severe-pneumonia-cancels-appointments-for-the-next-tw

 

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WE WISH HER A SPEEDY RECOVERY AND AN EARLY RETIREMENT....

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NOVEMBER 14, 2024

 

LUXEMBOURG — Ursula von der Leyen has plenty on her plate already. 

Amid a bruising wrangle to get her new European Commission team in place, the EU’s most powerful woman faces the indignity of judges and lawyers crawling over her personal phone habits in a public hearing in court. 

At the center of the case is the question of whether von der Leyen’s office was right to refuse to release text messages she allegedly exchanged with the boss of drugs giant Pfizer in 2021. At the time, the Commission chief was negotiating a valuable deal to secure up to 1.8 billion doses of Covid vaccines from the company. 

The case may ultimately set a precedent for whether cellphone text messages count as official documents and what rights the public and press have to access them. 

But the bigger political issue at stake is von der Leyen’s own credibility, as she embarks on her second term running the European Union’s executive branch. 

The European Commission she leads has pledged it would defend standards of transparency, efficiency and probity. Von der Leyen’s team frequently assesses and occasionally punishes EU member governments if they fall short of its rules.

On Friday, the European Court of Justice in Luxembourg will examine the claim that von der Leyen’s administration was wrong to deny requests from Matina Stevis-Gridneff, the former New York Times bureau chief in Brussels, to see the text messages she allegedly swapped with Pfizer boss Albert Bourla at the height of the pandemic. 

Stevis-Gridneff first reported on the messages in an interview with von der Leyen in 2021. Ever since, however, the Commission has been reluctant to confirm or deny whether such texts ever existed or what they did or did not say. 

In the EU’s General Court case, Stevis-Gridneff is seeking the annulment of the Commission’s decision to refuse access to the documents, claiming it goes against EU transparency laws. While the court will make its ruling at a later date, likely early in 2025, Friday’s public hearing will offer the first and perhaps only opportunity for the two sides’ positions to be aired in a public court. 

https://www.politico.eu/article/ursula-von-der-leyen-pfizer-ceo-text-messages-vaccines-court-case/

 

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YOURDEMOCRACY.NET RECORDS HISTORY AS IT SHOULD BE — NOT AS THE WESTERN MEDIA WRONGLY REPORTS IT.

 

         Gus Leonisky

         POLITICAL CARTOONIST SINCE 1951.

 

HYPOCRISY ISN’T ONE OF THE TEN COMMANDMENTS SINS.

HENCE ITS POPULARITY IN THE ABRAHAMIC TRADITIONS…

 

PLEASE DO NOT BLAME RUSSIA IF WW3 STARTS. BLAME AMERICA.