Vivendi, Lagardère journalists protected from EU document demand, judges told
By Nicholas Hirst ( May 14, 2025, 17:51 GMT | Insight) -- EU antitrust enforcers have put in place a procedure to allow Vivendi's and Lagardère’s journalists to shield their sources from document demands by the regulator, it emerged in an EU court hearing today. Judges at the EU's General Court pushed European Commission investigators on whether the process complied with human rights law, but seemed more concerned about the interplay of the regulator’s gun-jumping probe with EU and French privacy law.EU antitrust enforcers have put in place a procedure to allow Vivendi's and Lagardère’s journalists to shield their sources from document demands by the regulator, it emerged in an EU court hearing today. ...
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