Legally speaking, the JDD can become whatever it wants, as long as it abides by the law. On Sunday, the French government weighed in for the first time. Anti-immigration and hardline law-and-order comments made by some of its talk show hosts regularly inflame social media, drawing comparisons with U.S. The company already owns news channel CNews, which has taken a conservative turn since Bollore took control. The move comes just two weeks after the European Commission gave a conditional green light to the acquisition of Lagardere by Vivendi (VIV.PA) the media conglomerate controlled by French billionaire Vincent Bollore.

Lejeune is the former head of magazine Valeurs Actuelles, which has courted controversy with anti-immigrant covers and was fined for racist insult in 2022.

The newspaper’s owner, French media group Lagardere (LAGA.PA), on Friday named Geoffroy Lejeune as JDD's new editor-in-chief, succeeding Jerome Begle who left for Paris Match. PARIS, June 25 (Reuters) - France’s flagship Sunday newspaper, Le Journal du Dimanche (JDD), was not published this Sunday after its staff went on strike to protest against the nomination of a new editor-in-chief who worked for a far-right magazine.

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