{"id":4371,"date":"2025-06-26T16:42:17","date_gmt":"2025-06-26T16:42:17","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.developeternal.com\/?p=4371"},"modified":"2025-06-28T02:26:44","modified_gmt":"2025-06-28T02:26:44","slug":"von-der-leyen-faces-possible-no-confidence-vote-ft","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.developeternal.com\/index.php\/2025\/06\/26\/von-der-leyen-faces-possible-no-confidence-vote-ft\/","title":{"rendered":"Von der Leyen faces possible no confidence vote \u2013 FT"},"content":{"rendered":"

The European Commission president has been under scrutiny over a multi-billion-dollar Covid-19 vaccine deal<\/strong><\/p>\n

A group of lawmakers in the European Parliament (MEPs) claim they have secured enough support to initiate a no-confidence vote against European Commission President Ursula von der Leyen over her failure to cooperate with a probe into a multi-billion dollar deal she struck with pharma giant Pfizer for COVID vaccines, the Financial Times has reported.<\/p>\n

In May, the EU\u2019s Court of Justice ruled that the European Commission wrongly denied the New York Times access to text messages von der Leyen exchanged with Pfizer CEO, Albert Bourla.<\/p>\n

The court rejected the commission\u2019s\u00a0claim that it did not have the messages in its possession,\u00a0instructing it to provide \u201ccredible explanations\u201d<\/em> why the texts, which von der Leyen herself boasted of in public,\u00a0 were not retained by officials.<\/p>\n

The EC\u00a0promised\u00a0to come up with more detailed reasoning for its\u00a0denial, but has not committed to releasing the texts.<\/p>\n

Romanian MEP Gheorghe Piperea told the FT that he will file a motion to stage a no confidence vote on Thursday after his group secured the required 72 signatures.<\/p>\n

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Von der Leyen\u2019s \u201clegally unsound\u201d<\/em> refusal to share the text messages demonstrated \u201ca continued pattern of institutional overreach, democratic disregard, and erosion of public trust in the Union\u2019s governance,\u201d<\/em> he argued.<\/p>\n

The MEP has called on \u201cthe European Commission to resign due to repeated failures to ensure transparency, persistent disregard for democratic oversight and the rule of law within the Union.\u201d<\/em><\/p>\n

In order for the vote of no confidence to succeed, more than two-thirds of MEPs need to be in attendance at the European Parliament in Brussels. Last year, 407 out of 720 lawmakers backed von der Leyen for her second five-year term as president.<\/p>\n

Piperea acknowledged that the chances of voting out von der Leyen are slim, despite support for the initiative from some members of her own European People\u2019s Party.<\/p>\n

The no confidence vote offers a \u201ccrucial opportunity for constructive and substantiated criticism towards President von der Leyen,\u201d<\/em> he said. \u201cIt obliges the commission to address concerns and provide justifications.\u201d<\/em><\/p><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

The European Commission president has been under scrutiny over a multi-billion-dollar Covid-19 vaccine deal A group of lawmakers in the European Parliament (MEPs) claim they have secured enough support to initiate a no-confidence vote against European Commission President Ursula von der Leyen over her failure to cooperate with a probe into a multi-billion dollar deal…<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":4373,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[14],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-4371","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.developeternal.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4371","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.developeternal.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.developeternal.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.developeternal.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.developeternal.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=4371"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"http:\/\/www.developeternal.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4371\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":4375,"href":"http:\/\/www.developeternal.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4371\/revisions\/4375"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.developeternal.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/4373"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.developeternal.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=4371"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.developeternal.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=4371"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.developeternal.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=4371"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}