{"id":2522102,"date":"2025-05-11T12:29:14","date_gmt":"2025-05-11T12:29:14","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.wacoca.com\/news\/2522102\/"},"modified":"2025-05-11T12:29:14","modified_gmt":"2025-05-11T12:29:14","slug":"italy-court-confirms-suspension-of-telecom-italia-fine-over-vivendi-control","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.wacoca.com\/news\/2522102\/","title":{"rendered":"Italy court confirms suspension of Telecom Italia fine over Vivendi control"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"\"   height=\"2624\" alt=\"FILE PHOTO: The Telecom Italy logo is seen at the headquaters downtown Milan\"\/><\/p>\n<p>FILE PHOTO: The Telecom Italy logo is seen at the headquaters downtown Milan, Italy, March 10, 2016.  REUTERS\/Stefano Rellandini\/File Photo<\/p>\n<p>MILAN (Reuters) &#8211; An Italian court confirmed on Thursday the suspension of a 74.3-million-euro (65.6 million pounds) fine imposed on Telecom Italia  for failing to notify the government its main shareholder Vivendi  had effective control.<\/p>\n<p>The Rome-based administrative court had already suspended the fine in June. It will hold a new hearing on the issue on May 8, 2019, according to a copy of the court ruling.<\/p>\n<p>In September, Rome began to look into the failure by the French media group, which is TIM&#8217;s biggest shareholder with a 24-percent stake, to communicate to the prime minister&#8217;s office that it had de facto control over the former state monopoly.<\/p>\n<p>After months of friction between Vivendi and the Italian government, Rome in October applied the so-called &#8220;golden power&#8221;, allowing the government to veto strategic decisions such as asset sales and mergers at businesses deemed to be of strategic national importance.<\/p>\n<p data-testid=\"SignOff\" class=\"text__text__1FZLe text__dark-grey__3Ml43 text__regular__2N1Xr text__extra_small__1Mw6v body__full_width__ekUdw body__extra_small_body__3QTYe sign-off__text__PU3Aj\">Reporting by Domenico Lusi, writing Giulia Segreti, editing by Steve Scherer<\/p>\n<p data-testid=\"Body\" class=\"text__text__1FZLe text__dark-grey__3Ml43 text__regular__2N1Xr text__small__1kGq2 body__base__22dCE body__small_body__2vQyf article-body__element__2p5pI article-body__trust-badge__D_brm\">\u79c1\u305f\u3061\u306e\u884c\u52d5\u898f\u7bc4\uff1a\u30c8\u30e0\u30bd\u30f3\u30fb\u30ed\u30a4\u30bf\u30fc\u300c\u4fe1\u983c\u306e\u539f\u5247\u300d, opens new tab<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>FILE PHOTO: The Telecom Italy logo is seen at the headquaters downtown Milan, Italy, March 10, 2016. REUTERS\/S<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":2522103,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":"","_share_on_mastodon":"0"},"categories":[784996],"tags":[762715,762682,285050,762734,589033,61800,763189,6804,133797,762830,762686,764648,764649,762815,238274,77771,104159,762679,762733,24825,12477],"class_list":{"0":"post-2522102","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-italy","8":"tag-cmpny","9":"tag-cycs","10":"tag-dip","11":"tag-europ","12":"tag-fin","13":"tag-fr","14":"tag-imm","15":"tag-it","16":"tag-italy","17":"tag-judic","18":"tag-mdia","19":"tag-phon","20":"tag-phon1","21":"tag-plcy","22":"tag-pol","23":"tag-pub","24":"tag-tmt","25":"tag-topnws","26":"tag-weu","27":"tag-www","28":"tag-12477"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/wakoka.com\/@news\/114489207326914164","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.wacoca.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2522102","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.wacoca.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.wacoca.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.wacoca.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.wacoca.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2522102"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.wacoca.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2522102\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.wacoca.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/2522103"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.wacoca.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2522102"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.wacoca.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2522102"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.wacoca.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2522102"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}