Brussels, 06/06/2003 (Agence Europe) - As anticipated, the European Commission has opened a detailed enquiry into the acquisition of Vivendi Universal Publishing (VUP) by Lagardère. They are concerned about the fall-out of such an operation, which will combine the two market leaders in French-language publishing (Lagardère's subsidiary, Hachette Livre, is second behind VUP) on several markets. The preliminary enquiry found that the company created would dominate markets the length of the...