Yannick Bolloré: “Vivendi will seek by all means to obtain an agreement with the European Commission”

The road is still winding for Vivendi. The thorny file of the sale of Editis has continued to get bogged down in recent months in an interminable standoff with the European Commission, leaving a little more the 2,000 employees of the second French publishing group and its competitors in the expectation. On the occasion of the publication of its results on Wednesday, the French media giant had to change its plans at the last minute. He finally decided not to communicate the identity of the potential buyer, in the face of the reluctance expressed by the regulators in Brussels on the sale plan of Editis. “Vivendi will seek by all means to obtain a compatibility agreement with the European Commission so that the takeover bid on Lagardere be accepted”says Yannick Bolloré to Figaro. The chairman of Vivendi’s supervisory board was in Brussels on Monday to meet Margrethe Vestager, the vice-president of the Commission.