Axel Springer guilty

Axel Springer is to issue a formal apology to Agora and pay zł.100,000 in damages to charity - on top of legal costs - after a Warsaw court ruled that the German publisher breached EU competition law when its senior executive used a private letter in an attempt to persuade Agora to abandon its plans to launch a mid-market daily to take on Springer's Fakt in 2005.