More than two decades since mobile phones have made texting ubiquitous, the European Union institutions struggle to square their transparency obligations with leader’s wishes to keep their direct exchanges confidential.
The conundrum became evident earlier this year in closed-door negotiations between policy-makers in the European Commission, the Council of member states, the European Parliament and other EU institutions over a common framework on how to deal with text messages.
Didn’t she get in trouble as the German defence minister for dodgy texts?
Bundestag to probe defense minister [von der Leyen] over contracts [2018]
Defense Ministry ‘illegally’ wiped von der Leyen’s phone [2019]
I still don’t get how she got the job as president, the process is sus.
The word you are looking for is “hochgefeuert”.
Is that like the British term of failing upwards?
Yes. The literal translation would be “getting fired upwards”.
We are kind of notorious for pawning off our “best and brightest” (/s) to Brussels.
Not for texts, for being obviously corrupt and wasting money, the fact that she isn’t in prison is already a declaration of bankruptcy.