The Commission is found to have wrongly refused to publish texts from its president during the Covid pandemic.

The European Court of Justice Wednesday ruled there was no plausible reason to block the New York Times from getting European Commission President Ursula von der Leyen's texts with a Pfizer executive.

The ruling, seen as a major victory for transparency campaigners, piles pressure on Ursula von der Leyen over the opaque nature of the EU's vaccine negotiations during the pandemic.