János Bóka, Hungary’s EU affairs minister, has welcomed a ruling passed by the EU court, according to which the European Commission should have made public the text messages it had exchanged with Covid vaccine supplier Pfizer during the pandemic.

The EU court has made such a significant decision that "it is visible even from the Moon," Minister Bóka said on Facebook.

"The Commission has until now stated that those messages did not even exist", the minister said. "But as it now turns out, they in fact did, and the EC should release those," he added.

"We, however, still don’t know what those messages contain. We don’t know what happened around placing an order for the purchase of 1.8 billion doses of vaccines and the payment of several tens of billions of euros," said Minister Bóka.