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Vivendi and EU Commission set to clash in court over gun-jumping evidence demands

By Jean Comte and Nicholas Hirst ( May 13, 2025, 14:06 GMT | Comment) -- Vivendi will likely tells EU judges tomorrow that protections for the press over keeping sources confidential must prevent EU investigators probing an alleged breach of merger rules from demanding its journalists' messages in their hunt for evidence. Critics, though, claim that when Vivendi was in the midst of buying Lagardère it illicitly impeded the editorial independence of its target's news outlets before receiving EU approval for the takeover.Press freedoms are expected to feature prominently in Vivendi’s arguments before EU judges tomorrow as the French media conglomerate seeks to stymie an EU gun-jumping probe into how and when it acquired control of rival Lagardère’s press and radio empire. ...

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