The Commission told the complainant that von der Leyen and her head of cabinet had decided there was no need to register the message and let it disappear. It's not the first time von der Leyen’s handling of text messages has come under scrutiny. In May, an EU court found that the European Commission had been wrong to refuse access to von der Leyen’s text messages with Pfizer CEO Albert Bourla at the height of the Covid-19 pandemic. In that case, the European Commission also reviewed the texts in question and allowed them to be lost. POLITICO has reached out to the Commission and Macron's office for comment.