Pfizergate

English

Etymology

From Pfizer +‎ -gate.

Proper noun

Pfizergate

1. A scandal involving alleged communications between European Commission President Ursula von der Leyen and American pharmaceutical company Pfizer that were seen as secretive.
   • 2024 April 1, Carlo Martuscelli and Elisa Braun, “European prosecutors take over Belgian probe into Pfizergate”, in POLITICO Europe‎^[1]:

     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.”