MIL-OSI Europe: Written question – Commission’s awareness of intelligence on the origin of COVID-19 – E-001116/2025

Question for written answer  E-001116/2025
to the Commission
Rule 144
Siegbert Frank Droese (ESN)

• 1.Has the Commission been informed by German or other European authorities about intelligence from the German Federal Intelligence Service or other European intelligence services indicating that COVID-19 originated in a laboratory? If so, when was the Commission informed and how much information was it given?
• 2.What does the Commission make of the possible implications of such findings for the EU’s pandemic policy to date – particularly lockdowns, business closures, vaccine procurement and liability issues?
• 3.In view of those findings, will the Commission consider reassessing its pandemic strategy and, if necessary, launch measures to review the policy decisions made in recent years?

Submitted: 17.3.2025