{"id":261482,"date":"2025-07-20T16:43:12","date_gmt":"2025-07-20T16:43:12","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/fr\/261482\/"},"modified":"2025-07-20T16:43:12","modified_gmt":"2025-07-20T16:43:12","slug":"le-groupe-accuse-par-lunion-europeenne-davoir-pris-le-controle-de-lagardere-trop-tot","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/fr\/261482\/","title":{"rendered":"Le groupe accus\u00e9 par l\u2019Union europ\u00e9enne d\u2019avoir pris le contr\u00f4le de Lagard\u00e8re trop t\u00f4t"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>L\u2019Union europ\u00e9enne estime que le groupe de <a href=\"https:\/\/www.20minutes.fr\/dossier\/vincent_bollore\" class=\"color-ultramarine c-link\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Vincent Bollor\u00e9<\/a> exer\u00e7ait \u00ab\u00a0une influence\u00a0\u00bb \u00e9ditoriale \u00ab\u00a0d\u00e9terminante\u00a0\u00bb sur plusieurs m\u00e9dias de <a href=\"https:\/\/www.20minutes.fr\/economie\/lagardere\/\" class=\"color-ultramarine c-link\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Lagard\u00e8re <\/a>avant que l\u2019op\u00e9ration de prise de contr\u00f4le ne soit notifi\u00e9e \u00e0 Bruxelles le 24\u00a0octobre 2022.<\/p>\n<p>Elle a donc accus\u00e9, vendredi, le groupe fran\u00e7ais <a href=\"https:\/\/www.20minutes.fr\/dossier\/vivendi\" class=\"color-ultramarine c-link\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Vivendi<\/a> d\u2019avoir enfreint les r\u00e8gles de l\u2019<a href=\"https:\/\/www.20minutes.fr\/dossier\/ue\" class=\"color-ultramarine c-link\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Union europ\u00e9enne<\/a> en mati\u00e8re de concurrence, en prenant justement trop t\u00f4t le contr\u00f4le du groupe Lagard\u00e8re. Des \u00ab\u00a0all\u00e9gations\u00a0\u00bb imm\u00e9diatement contest\u00e9es par Vivendi.<\/p>\n<p>Selon l\u2019enqu\u00eate de la <a href=\"https:\/\/www.20minutes.fr\/dossier\/commission_europeenne\" class=\"color-ultramarine c-link\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Commission europ\u00e9enne<\/a>, Vivendi surveillait \u00ab\u00a0de pr\u00e8s\u00a0\u00bb et intervenait r\u00e9guli\u00e8rement dans les d\u00e9cisions strat\u00e9giques concernant la ligne \u00e9ditoriale, ainsi que les couvertures et les articles des magazines et journaux du groupe Lagard\u00e8re, <a href=\"https:\/\/www.20minutes.fr\/dossier\/paris_match\" class=\"color-ultramarine c-link\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Paris Match<\/a> et le <a href=\"https:\/\/www.20minutes.fr\/dossier\/jdd\" class=\"color-ultramarine c-link\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Journal du Dimanche<\/a>, ainsi que la radio Europe 1.<\/p>\n<p>Une communication qui n\u2019\u00e9tablit pas encore l\u2019existence d\u2019une infraction<\/p>\n<p>Bruxelles reproche aussi \u00e0 Vivendi son intervention dans les d\u00e9cisions relatives aux licenciements et recrutements de journalistes pour ces deux publications et pour <a href=\"https:\/\/www.20minutes.fr\/medias\/europe1\/\" class=\"color-ultramarine c-link\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Europe 1<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>Une \u00ab\u00a0communication de griefs\u00a0\u00bb a donc \u00e9t\u00e9 adress\u00e9e au groupe fran\u00e7ais, premi\u00e8re \u00e9tape d\u2019une proc\u00e9dure au terme de laquelle Bruxelles pourrait infliger \u00e0 Vivendi une amende pouvant atteindre 10\u00a0% de son chiffre d\u2019affaires total.<\/p>\n<p>Le groupe, qui \u00ab\u00a0conteste les all\u00e9gations de la Commission europ\u00e9enne\u00a0\u00bb, a indiqu\u00e9 vendredi qu\u2019il r\u00e9pondrait \u00ab\u00a0de mani\u00e8re argument\u00e9e afin d\u2019obtenir sa mise hors de cause et la cl\u00f4ture de l\u2019enqu\u00eate\u00a0\u00bb.<\/p>\n<p>La communication de la Commission \u00ab\u00a0marque seulement l\u2019ouverture de la phase contradictoire de la proc\u00e9dure\u00a0\u00bb et \u00ab\u00a0n\u2019\u00e9tablit pas l\u2019existence \u00e0 ce stade d\u2019une infraction et n\u2019impose pas de sanction\u00a0\u00bb, souligne Vivendi.<\/p>\n<p>Une enqu\u00eate ouverte en juillet\u00a02023<\/p>\n<p>La Commission europ\u00e9enne avait annonc\u00e9 fin juillet\u00a02023 l\u2019ouverture d\u2019une enqu\u00eate formelle, soup\u00e7onnant d\u00e9j\u00e0 une prise de contr\u00f4le anticip\u00e9e en infraction aux r\u00e8gles de l\u2019UE. Le 9 juin\u00a02023, Bruxelles avait toutefois autoris\u00e9 Vivendi \u00e0 absorber son ancien rival, \u00e0 condition de c\u00e9der sa filiale \u00e9dition et le magazine <a href=\"https:\/\/www.20minutes.fr\/dossier\/gala\" class=\"color-ultramarine c-link\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Gala<\/a>.<\/p>\n<\/p>\n<p>L\u2019infraction \u00e9ventuelle ne porte donc pas sur l\u2019op\u00e9ration elle-m\u00eame, mais sur les conditions dans lesquelles elle a \u00e9t\u00e9 r\u00e9alis\u00e9e, sans tenir compte des d\u00e9lais impos\u00e9s par l\u2019UE.<\/p>\n<p>Le groupe Lagard\u00e8re a \u00e9t\u00e9 absorb\u00e9 en novembre\u00a02023 par Vivendi, le groupe de Vincent Bollor\u00e9. Il fait d\u00e9sormais partie de Louis <a href=\"https:\/\/www.20minutes.fr\/dossier\/hachette\" class=\"color-ultramarine c-link\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Hachette<\/a> Group, n\u00e9 fin\u00a02024 de la scission de Vivendi.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"L\u2019Union europ\u00e9enne estime que le groupe de Vincent Bollor\u00e9 exer\u00e7ait \u00ab\u00a0une influence\u00a0\u00bb \u00e9ditoriale \u00ab\u00a0d\u00e9terminante\u00a0\u00bb sur plusieurs m\u00e9dias de&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":261483,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1586],"tags":[11,2360,2196,58,1777,674,1779,1011,27,40124,500,12,5818,25,1778,364,1022,1021],"class_list":{"0":"post-261482","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-europe","8":"tag-actualites","9":"tag-bruxelles","10":"tag-commission-europeenne","11":"tag-divertissement","12":"tag-eu","13":"tag-europe","14":"tag-european-union","15":"tag-fr","16":"tag-france","17":"tag-groupe-lagardere","18":"tag-medias","19":"tag-news","20":"tag-paris-match","21":"tag-republique-francaise","22":"tag-ue","23":"tag-union-europeenne","24":"tag-vincent-bollore","25":"tag-vivendi"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/pubeurope.com\/@fr\/114886567704242314","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/fr\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/261482","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/fr\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/fr\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/fr\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/fr\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=261482"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/fr\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/261482\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/fr\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/261483"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/fr\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=261482"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/fr\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=261482"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/fr\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=261482"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}