The suspension is also likely to lead to a temporary shutdown of one nuclear plant operated by German utility EnBW AG, and if continued, may force another owned by RWE AG offline, at least temporarily, this year.

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CLT-Ufa, part-owned by Bertelsmann, and Kirch, the German media mogul, on the grounds that this would lead to too few players in the German pay-television business.

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