{"id":1252401,"date":"2025-06-26T16:44:49","date_gmt":"2025-06-26T13:44:49","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/prm.ua\/european-commission-president-ursula-von-der-leyen-faces-vote-of-no-confidence-all-the-details-of-the-incident\/"},"modified":"2025-06-26T16:44:49","modified_gmt":"2025-06-26T13:44:49","slug":"european-commission-president-ursula-von-der-leyen-faces-vote-of-no-confidence-all-the-details-of-the-incident","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/prm.ua\/en\/european-commission-president-ursula-von-der-leyen-faces-vote-of-no-confidence-all-the-details-of-the-incident\/","title":{"rendered":"European Commission President Ursula von der Leyen faces vote of no confidence: all the details of the incident"},"content":{"rendered":"

European Commission President Ursula von der Leyen is at the center of a major political scandal that could cost her her job. The reason is opaque negotiations with pharmaceutical giant Pfizer during the COVID-19 pandemic and multi-billion dollar vaccine contracts. Because of this, the European Parliament is preparing an initiative to express a vote of no confidence in the entire European Commission.<\/strong><\/p>\n

This is reported by the Financial Times<\/a> .<\/p>\n

According to journalists, back in 2021, Ursula von der Leyen personally negotiated the terms of a multi-billion dollar contract to supply vaccines to EU countries with Pfizer chairman Albert Bourla \u2014 and, as it turned out, did so via personal SMS messages<\/strong> . These correspondences were never made public, which caused a wave of indignation among deputies and the public.<\/p>\n

The European Court of Justice has ruled that the European Commission violated the principles of transparency when it refused to publish the correspondence<\/strong> , despite a request from The New York Times, which filed a lawsuit.<\/p>\n

One of the initiators of the no-confidence vote was Romanian far-right MEP Gheorghe Piperea. He said he had already collected a significant number of signatures to officially submit the motion. At least 72 signatures of deputies are needed for it to be considered.<\/p>\n

At the same time, to remove von der Leyen from office, at least two-thirds of the votes of all those present at the plenary session of the European Parliament are required. There are a total of 720 deputies. In 2024, 401 of them voted for her re-election.<\/p>\n

However , some of that support has since been lost due to political differences<\/strong> , including disputes over immigration, energy policy, and military support for Ukraine.<\/p>\n

While experts say it is unlikely that von der Leyen will be removed from office, the very threat of a no-confidence vote seriously undermines her authority<\/strong> and her chances of uniting a majority in the European Parliament. It is expected that the European Commission President will have to make political concessions to both left and right forces to keep her job.<\/p>\n

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European Commission President Ursula von der Leyen is at the center of a major political scandal that could cost her her job. The reason is opaque negotiations with pharmaceutical giant Pfizer during the COVID-19 pandemic and multi-billion dollar vaccine contracts. Because of this, the European Parliament is preparing an initiative to express a vote of […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":54,"featured_media":1252674,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"ep_exclude_from_search":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[76885,76871,76872,76875],"class_list":["post-1252401","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-policy","category-news-2","category-news-feed","category-other-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/prm.ua\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1252401","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/prm.ua\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/prm.ua\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/prm.ua\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/54"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/prm.ua\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1252401"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/prm.ua\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1252401\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/prm.ua\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/1252674"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/prm.ua\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1252401"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/prm.ua\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1252401"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}