Brussels, 11/12/2006 (Agence Europe) - On 8 December, the European Commission decided to open an in-depth investigation into plans by Universal, an American subsidiary of the French company Vivendi, to purchase the music publishing activities of the German group Bertelsmann Music Group (BMG). The Commission's initial investigation showed that the planned merger would raise serious misgivings as to negative effects on competition in a music publishing market which is already highly...