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Europe Daily Bulletin No. 8269

3 August 2002
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GENERAL NEWS / (eu) eu/competition
Commission will take decision on Sogecable and via digital merger before 19 August

Brussels, 02/08/2002 (Agence Europe) - On 19 August at the latest, the European Commission will decide if it will open its own investigation in the merger between Spanish pay television company Sogecable (Prisa group) and Via Digital (Telefonica group) or whether it will delegate the case to the Spanish authorities, as the latter have requested. During a press conference, Commissioner Monti recognised last week that the deal had raised some "genuine" worries" in the area of television...

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