{"id":5326,"date":"2025-10-17T12:55:42","date_gmt":"2025-10-17T12:55:42","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.globaltalenthq.com\/?p=5326"},"modified":"2025-10-20T18:40:05","modified_gmt":"2025-10-20T18:40:05","slug":"von-der-leyen-trolled-by-phone-upgrade-offer","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.globaltalenthq.com\/index.php\/2025\/10\/17\/von-der-leyen-trolled-by-phone-upgrade-offer\/","title":{"rendered":"Von der Leyen \u2018trolled\u2019 by phone upgrade offer"},"content":{"rendered":"

The EU chief\u2019s failures to keep messages in which she made billions worth of deals was the subject of a move by lawmakers<\/strong><\/p>\n

EU Commission President Ursula von der Leyen’s notoriety for losing hundreds of phone messages crucial to oversight probes into multi-billion euro deals has inspired a group of lawmakers to mock her by proposing she be given a phone with a bigger memory.<\/p>\n

Von der Leyen has previously deleted or ‘lost’ hundreds of messages in which she respectively negotiated a seven-hundred-million euro contract during her controversial time as German defense minister and in which she made a 35 billion euro ($40 billion) deal for Covid-19 vaccines with Pfizer.<\/p>\n

Most recently von der Leyen’s office refused to release communications with French President Emmanuel Macron in which he reportedly urged her to block a bloc trade deal with the South American Mercosur bloc. European Ombudswoman Teresa Anjinho has opened an investigation into the failure to retain crucial communications.<\/p>\n

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Von der Leyen\u2019s communications under new investigation<\/a><\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<\/blockquote>\n

The Commission said the text, sent via the Signal app, was automatically deleted due to an array of reasons, including storage limitations.<\/p>\n

The lawmakers’ amendment, led by German MEP Christine Anderson and Sweden’s Charlie Weimers, calls for “adequate funding to provide the President of the Commission with a mobile phone with sufficient storage capacity and appropriate IT support to ensure that all messages are preserved without exception,”<\/em> as quoted by Politico.<\/p>\n

It has been co-signed by 57 MEPs – mostly from right-wing parties – in a stunt described by the outlet as “trolling.”<\/em><\/p>\n

The EU’s Court of Justice previously ruled that official communications from devices held by individuals must be properly archived – with the body vowing to review its protocols in response.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

The EU chief\u2019s failures to keep messages in which she made billions worth of deals was the subject of a move by lawmakers EU Commission President Ursula von der Leyen’s notoriety for losing hundreds of phone messages crucial to oversight probes into multi-billion euro deals has inspired a group of…<\/p>\n

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