On 24 January, Ursula von der Leyen announced the "mother of all trade deals" — a historic EU-India free trade agreement. She posted it on X: "We are closing in on the 🇪🇺🇮🇳 Free Trade Agreement. See you soon in Delhi."
Except she'd already announced it four days earlier at Davos to the actual journalists who actually wrote about it.
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Alejandro Tauber is publisher of EUobserver.