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Europe Daily Bulletin No. 7818

12 October 2000
Contents Publication in full By article 29 / 45
GENERAL NEWS / (eu) eu/competition
Commission gives conditional approval to AOL/Time Warner merger

Brussels, 11/10/2000 (Agence Europe) - The European Commission approved the proposal of merger between the American groups, America Online Inc (AOL) and Time Warner, as AOL has offered to sever all structural links with the German media group, Bertelsmann, the largest European media group. The proposed move was the subject of a detailed investigation by EU competition authorities whose main fear was that the new entity would hold a dominant position on the emergent markets of on-line...

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