(CN) — What France pitched as a way to protect neighborhood bookstores is now being tested as a possible obstacle to EU trade, after judges in Luxembourg took a harder look Thursday at the country’s minimum delivery fee for online book orders.
Breaking with a July opinion from EU legal adviser Maciej Szpunar, the Court of Justice of the European Union said France’s 3-euro minimum delivery fee does not belong under the bloc’s services rules at all.
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