This is an organization that is overrun with secrecy. Making EU law is done in secret: https://euobserver.com/eu-political/136630 https://euobserver.com/eu-pol

This is an organization that is overrun with secrecy. Making EU law is done in secret: https://euobserver.com/eu-political/136630 https://euobserver.com/eu-political/136630 The process of selecting the current leader was done in secret. Even the single-option EU Parliament ballot with her name on it, was a secret ballot. She replaced the previous leader who is on the record as saying, "Monetary policy is a serious issue. We should discuss this in secret, in the Eurogroup [...] I'm ready to be insulted as being insufficiently democratic, but I want to be serious [...] I am for secret, dark debates." Then she negotiated massive vaccine purchases from Pfizer that were far too large, and the deal was secret. People wanted to know what sort of negotiation process led to buying hundreds of millions of shots that then had to be destroyed because nobody wanted them, and it turned out she negotiated it via SMS and those messages were ... yep, secret. (in fact, destroyed). This came as no surprise because at the time she got the job she was under investigation in Germany for corruption, but the investigation stalled after phones that were confiscated turned out to have had all their data deleted before being handed over. The EU insists that almost every website spam you with reams of boilerplate in the name of transparency, but systematically refuses transparency for itself.