Vivendi gets fresh EU charges in Lagardère gun-jumping probe (update*)
By Jean Comte, Nicholas Hirst and Andrew Boyce ( July 3, 2026, 09:47 GMT | Insight) -- Vivendi has seen the EU's competition enforcer add "new significant evidence" to its allegations that the French media giant influenced decisions at Lagardère before gaining EU approval to buy it. The "supplementary" charge sheet follows a first one issued in July last year. The European Commission said the allegations remained "largely the same."French company Vivendi got fresh charges from the EU's merger regulator in its probe into alleged gun-jumping when the media conglomerate took over Lagardère, according to an update on the authority's website....
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