The mobile phone used by von der Leyen has been replaced several times since then with the data not having been transferred, the document continued.
In May, the EU’s lower tier General Court ruled that the EU executive was wrong not to release the texts, a decision that Politico revealed this week the Commission will not be contesting at the top tier court.
The case became a flashpoint for transparency activists who said it demonstrated the lack of accountability in von der Leyen’s Commission ― and for people who opposed the use of the vaccine in the first place.
At the beginning of July, von der Leyen successfully saw off a no-confidence vote in the European Parliament over the case, triggered by right-wing Romanian MEP Gheorghe Piperea.
