Pfizergate en · PROPN
Etymology
From Pfizer + -gate.
Meanings
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A scandal involving alleged communications between European Commission President Ursula von der Leyen and American pharmaceutical company Pfizer that were seen as secretive.
Baldan’s complaint centered around an alleged exchange of text messages between von der Leyen and Pfizer boss Albert Bourla in the run-up to the EU’s biggest vaccine deal at the height of the Covid-19 pandemic, in an affair dubbed “Pfizergate.”
2024 January 4, Carlo Martuscelli and Elisa Braun, “European prosecutors take over Belgian probe into Pfizergate”, in POLITICO Europe: